Re: whoop

[Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com>]

I know what you mean... it is easy to have the "OS Poitics" startup.
Unfortunatly (ive had this problem too) In the state things are in now
you hafat be careful what you buy when you use linux 
Unfortunaly even I am just now starting to get to the point of being
 able to look and figure out what I can use and what I can't.
REcently I bought a new SCSI card (a recnet thread in here was my fight
with it...damned BIOS Plug N Pray stuff)
I litterally went into the kernel source code and wrote dowen a list
of every card that I saw mentioned as useable and went to
a store with my list
I said to the guy "This is a list of what I can use and I wont buy
anything bu tone of these"
(not to mention I have an Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard..
which means I hafta buy OSS/Linux for sound)
I wish I could help...form what I have heard those are nice cards (the
VooDoo) and I know one of them is suported
-Steve 

On Sat, 2 May 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote:

> I dont want to get into OS Politics NOR start a war on what hardware you
> should buy.  
> 
> 	I just want help and not a lecture on what hardware i should
> purchase.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2 May 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> 
> > You missed the point -- we as a community MUST NOT support hardware
> > vendors who do not return the support.  The economy is a consumer driven
> > one.  If we ALL stand up and refuse to buy hardware that is not
> > supported things will change.  Otherwise hardware like the winmodems
> > will continue.  Instead of asking "is this supported", you know when you
> > buy that it would work.  When win95 came out, people could only buy
> > win95 hardware -- or they had problems.  They did not buy it AND then
> > complain.  It was marked on the box "win95 compliant".  Support you OS. 
> > Support those who support us.
> > 
> > -- 
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > How can you see, when your mind is not open?
> > How can you think, when your eyes are closed?
> > - Jason Bonham Band, "Ordinary Black and White"
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > 
> 
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