I just popped the corel cd out of the burner and put in in by cd drive. Hey I can read it! (it actually burned!) Would you believe they DID NOT include EMACS! (it's not in the packages.gz file anyway). Guess they had a size problem. I'll try installing on the spare computer (wipe out RedHat) later. Meanwhile I'm exploring the cd.
--- Adam Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a solution to this problem, and it's the > Linux Standard Base > project (LSB). Those folks are working to provide a > set of standards which > a distribution can conform to. Then people who > write drivers and other > software can just write them to work with any > LSB-compliant distribution. > > --Adam :-) > > Richard wrote: > > > > The immortal question is still going to be... at > what point do all these > > distributions prevent the non-distro developer > from providing valuable > > software.... > > > > for example, I buy a laptop. It has the latest > and greatest hardware, from > > USD to JOG dial, and an internal camera.... > However, 5 of the 10 device > > drivers require drivers that are binary only from > the distro of the week. > > I've already experienced this. > > > > I have the new Sony PCG505RX. It's a hummer. It > also uses the NeoMagic > > 256AV chipset for video and audio. Redhat > published a GPL version of a > > sound driver from www.uglx.org which is now in the > kernel. The patches > > provided by UGLX do not work on all distros or > even most(not entirely > > proven). I emailed NeoMagic and in a moment of > weakness they told me that RH > > was working on a Binary Only version of the > driver. Then there's opensound. > > I tried the 4Front audio driver on Mandrake 6.1 > and they would not install > > and not load. > ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
