I'm working on over 30 new products on for the retail channel. We are just working on a RealTek Gigabit PCI NIC. Plugged it into a box with FC2 loaded and spent another 15~20 min getting FC2 to work with the card. Its a multiboot desktop - so tried MDK 10 & MDK 9.2 - they both detected the card and autoconfigured it. My point is not how we went about it or other technical things to do with various distro's. We look at things from a consumers point of view - have to, we get the calls when it doesn't work. Mandrake will, 8 times out of 10, work with many of the products that just should work with Linux. Actually, Knoppix is pretty good also - between the 2 of them, we can generally get most of the tings that should work, to go. To put it another way, if I have to spend the companies money on development in getting a device going with a distro, I'll chose the latest edition of Mandrake knowing that we will also be able to get it working with Knoppix once we have nailed MDK. My 2c Regards, Chris...
Its one of the reasons I often use PCLinux OS for new users, its a live CD with install option built from mandrake and using all its rpms for additionl software. also its a single cd like move with 2GB on the CD, but when installed its like an improved mandrake, in that it installs and works 99% of the time rather than 90%. Then once on the net, just download any additional files from the mandrake mirrors. I just wish I could learn to like the gui tools used to set up mandrake... but at least my son likes it. .. In short ... Good point. and nice to have a commercial view here too, helps us keep our feet on the ground. Chris Day wrote:
I'm working on over 30 new products on for the retail channel. We are just working on a RealTek Gigabit PCI NIC. Plugged it into a box with FC2 loaded and spent another 15~20 min getting FC2 to work with the card. Its a multiboot desktop - so tried MDK 10 & MDK 9.2 - they both detected the card and autoconfigured it.
My point is not how we went about it or other technical things to do with various distro's. We look at things from a consumers point of view - have to, we get the calls when it doesn't work. Mandrake will, 8 times out of 10, work with many of the products that just should work with Linux. Actually, Knoppix is pretty good also - between the 2 of them, we can generally get most of the tings that should work, to go.
To put it another way, if I have to spend the companies money on development in getting a device going with a distro, I'll chose the latest edition of Mandrake knowing that we will also be able to get it working with Knoppix once we have nailed MDK.
My 2c
Regards, Chris...
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Oh and By the way I for one really appreciate seeing the TUX logo on the Box, Its one of the reasons I keep going to DSE and buying, Even if I have spent time looking up the specs on google before I buy, its nice to know that we are being considered. Thanks for thinking of us too. Chris Day wrote:
I'm working on over 30 new products on for the retail channel. We are just working on a RealTek Gigabit PCI NIC. To put it another way, if I have to spend the companies money on development in getting a device going with a distro, I'll chose the latest edition of Mandrake knowing that we will also be able to get it working with Knoppix once we have nailed MDK.
Regards, Chris...
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