ReiserFS, WiFI and 3D & DVDs

[Douglas Stewart]

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Luis-Miguel Astudillo wrote:
| 3D is not as supported as in Window$, how come that it is so hard to
make it
| work ?  You buy good laptop or PCs but the only work in VESA mode.  I
know
| you'll tell me to go to this site and see at the manufacturers site
but ATI do
| not provide any drivers for Linux.  The only thing out there are
patches and
| more patches.  Unless you use Linux for personnal usage a business
does not have
| time to look around and fiddle with the system.
|

Because most companies refuse to release specs to their hardware in
order to maintain a "competitive advantage" in the marketplace, thus
making OpenSource drivers (at least ones that perform on par with
closed-source ones) a near impossibility.

| WiFi is not well supported either and many companies are demanding it.
  Some
| airlines and airports are moving from horizontal cabling to WiFi.  It
simply
| cost less.
|

Same reason.

| How come DVDs are not accessible by XINE and other Media Players ?
Why is the
| copyright an issue ?  On Windows there isn't that issue so please help me
| understand the problem.  Too many library's and patches to apply so it
could
| work properly on Linux.
|

The DVD Consortium enforces a licensing fee for all properly licensed
DVD players.  Since Fedora is both free-as-in-liberty and
free-as-in-beer, no such option is available.  RedHat would have to
track all downloaders and extract a fee from each in order to make it
practical.

Plus, just use off-shore repos. *grin*


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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs

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