My thanks to everyone who replied. You've given me some food for thought. -p. On 2/12/07, Chris Schumann <cschumann at twp-llc.com> wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:28:51 -0600 > > From: "T.J. Duchene" <tj at kewlness.net> > > > The "non-free" tree is Debian's answer to the closed source, > > patented or > > proprietary world. Fedora Core, for example, makes you recompile > > everything if you want to use NTFS to read your Windows > > drives. > > As a Fedora user, I believe that's not the whole truth. > > Like Debian, Fedora is serious about closed source. Fortunately, there is > a > large community of Fedora users to fill this obvious gap. ATRpms and Livna > are two well-respected repositories you can use to install most drivers > and > other packages. Currently, I'm using ATRpms for madwifi on some laptops, > and > Livna for mplayer and xine. > > Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had to compile anything on Fedora > Core > unless I want to actually do software development, or use some very new > software. > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070212/c15b20bf/attachment.htm