On Friday 25 July 2003 08:09, David St.Clair wrote:
So, what's keeping RedHat from putting the drivers in the
distribution? If
it's a GPL
thing, would it be easy to just download it during installation or at
least give the option to the user?
It's a closed source thing. Red Hat doesn't distribute any closed source
software anymore (that I know of). It's impossible to support, and it taints
your kernel.
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