On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:50:15PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > And more and more users will just ignore the official kernel package, > > because it will not support modern hardware. > Noooo... all the brand-new hardware on my newest machine is supported > without firmware updates. Really? You'd be surprised how much hardware requires firmware updates to work. What hardware do you have in that box?