So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

Ric Moore wayward4now
Wed Nov 8 18:36:36 PST 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:32 -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> I'm ecstatic with the Ubuntu Nvidia drivers.  Nothing like "just working", but 
> we've hashed that ground before.  Sorry it doesn't make the company as 
> happy...  it just works.  VMware works fine.  There was a point with Hoary 
> where it required a fix, but it's long gone.  USB Webcams work fine, 
> whatever.  You just need to install a couple packages.  If you don't have 
> Internet, have a friend download the packages you need to a USB ThumbDrive.

Now I'm feeling like the IBM guy vs the Mac guy. My #$^&*!@ webcam
worked and with a kernel upgrade (i suspect) it won't compile and
certainly will not work, sans the driver module. 
<swearing like a sailor> Ric 
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