[LUNI] Switching distros yet again

[Thomas Cameron (Red Hat)]

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Mike Scott wrote:
| I couldn't get the closed drivers to work at all.  I could never get it
| to load properly.
| Whe I tried the nVidia drivers from the distro,

Sorry, I need to make clear - you were most definitely *not* using
closed source drivers "from the distro."  We do not provide closed
source drivers in Fedora.  Ubuntu does enable the installation of
non-Free software out of the box, which is something that Fedora is
opposed to on the grounds that we believe in Free software.  Not Free
except when it is convenient for us to turn our backs on our ethos.

| it would tell me X
| couldn't start and bounce me back to the open drivers.
| There were some suggestions for manual install (from this list) which I
| then took to the nv forums.
| Each time I got a little farther, but still no success.

I think it was a problem with your enabling different, conflicting
repositories.  In your post you point to the instructions at
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia but it seems you didn't really follow
them.  :-(

I'd invite you to try Fedora again.  It's got a massive community behind
it, both forums and mailing lists.  Red Hat is the #1 commercial
contributor to Open Source projects like the Linux kernel, gcc and the
tool chain, glibc and so on.  Using Fedora and contributing bug reports
or even success stories means giving back to the community.

Cheers,
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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, RHCX, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Solutions Architect Team Lead, Central Region
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