The problem is, those companies spend a lot of money on developing their intellectual property, and part of that property is in their drivers, so releasing it would let other people/corporations see what they're doing and how, creating the potential for others to profit from the development they've paid for.
Personally, I say more power to them as long as they release drivers for their hardware that I can use under my OS of choice.
Originally posted by: Nothinman
but what would be the problem with putting that stuff in the firmware on the card?
But that's the point, they're not. If you buy any Apple machine with their hardware in it you can't use their drivers because they don't release PPC builds.
I just checkd on Nvidia's site... Their windows driver for XP/2000 32-bit is a 20mb download.
First off, I was speaking selfishly. Second, mac's are closed architecture proprietary machines(x86 seems poised to change this to a degree). Buying one and expecting a world of choices on them is not reasonable.
Ubuntu & Suse both work great on laptop.Originally posted by: JeffCos
I have a laptop that recently had issues and needed to be killdisked. Windows install freezes for some reason so can I install linux on here to get her back up and then install windows? What version of linux do you recommend for that? I see that eklass and Robor are running it on laptops, but each say different versions. But the majority of people here are going with Ubuntu...will it work?
did you first install ubuntu and then tried to install windows?ok, ubuntu installed fine, but now how can i run the windows xp install CD. i tried booting it up during startup, but it still freezes. Is there a way to open it through ubuntu?
Originally posted by: rookie1010
thanks for the replies
can i get both versions of suse for free?
What is a killdisk?
did you first install ubuntu and then tried to install windows?ok, ubuntu installed fine, but now how can i run the windows xp install CD. i tried booting it up during startup, but it still freezes. Is there a way to open it through ubuntu?
if you istall windows first, can you then install ubuntu after the windows installation
No, i tried to install windows, but it wouldn't install. Then i tried to install ubuntu and that worked, but i've been told there's no way to install windows from ubuntu, which is what i need to do.