[Sheflug] RE: Gentus

["Craig Andrews" <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Don't change yer board! It will work fine with any other distro, but Abit made, erm, _special_ drivers which made it work better than the other, more generic drivers.

You could probably upgrade the system to Red Hat or Mandrake if Gentus is a Red Hat compatible distro?

Craig


-- Original Message --

Craig Andrews wrote: 

> It seems that the Gentus distro has been dropped by Abit. They apparently used GPL code to make proprietary software for use in the distro, and when questioned about it, dropped the distro rather than GPLing it. 
> 
> They were obviously trying to cash in on the Linux hype by getting folk to buy it's boards, without releasing its mods to the public, hence trying to monopolise on the Linux drivers for it's boards. ie, only out distro supports it properly, so use it or get lost. I'd rather use Gigabyte or TMC boards, TBH. They are well supported, and I have never had a bad one yet! 

Ouch. Explains a lot.  And I guess I'll have problems 
in upgrading my kernel now, so I'm stuck with my current 
Linux unless and until I replace the main board or get the 
shop to do it. 

disgruntled of Sheffield. 



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