After a tirade like that I've got a copy of Debian waiting for you here Roy :) As pure as the freshly fallen snow ...
/me hides his binary Nvidia drivers behind a curtain
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
>
> Detection of hardware is based on the kernel and Mint can take no credit for
> that. It uses the same core as Ubuntu and is no better at detecting and
> installing than Ubuntu with the exception of some decisions to use
> proprietary rather than open source drivers. Ubuntu tries to support open
> source projects and use free as opposed to proprietary drivers where
> possible. However, you can easily install proprietary drivers in Ubuntu with
> the additional drivers tool in the menu. Mint tries to simplify things by
> preferring proprietary drivers in the first place. That is both good and
> bad. It shuts the door on open source development and does not give users
> the option of using open source, but it does make it simpler for most
> people. I would not call it better, though. It is certainly not better for
> the community in the long run. It is better for users to have open source
> drivers that we have control over, if they work as well, than proprietary
> drivers that are updated at the discretion of a big company when and if they
> choose.
>
> Roy
>
> Using Kubuntu 11.04, 64-bit
> Location: Canada
>
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