Linux on older laptops

[Luke-Jr]

On Monday 02 January 2006 13:03, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 03:17 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > Better to deprive business and a sale than to buy hardware without
> > [moral] drivers.
>
> Regarding my purchase, AMD and NVidia in my notebook was a higher
> priority than native wlan driver. 

You mean ATi, I hope. nVidia, of course, lacks hardware accel for 3D.

> Which you will be hard pressed to find native wlan support in a $1000
> notebook anyways, most at that price are broadcom.

Well, I guess the news of a native, moral Broadcom driver helps you here.

> I'm sure somewhere your stance on this makes sense, too bad this isn't
> that place.  I'm not understanding your comparison of morality and
> ndiswrapper I guess.

The only practical use for ndiswrapper is to load an immoral driver.