My thanks to everyone who replied. You've given me some food for thought.<br><br>-p.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Schumann</b> <<a href="mailto:cschumann@twp-llc.com">
cschumann@twp-llc.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:28:51 -0600<br>> From: "
T.J. Duchene" <<a href="mailto:tj@kewlness.net">tj@kewlness.net</a>><br><br>> The "non-free" tree is Debian's answer to the closed source,<br>> patented or<br>> proprietary world. Fedora Core, for example, makes you recompile
<br>> everything if you want to use NTFS to read your Windows<br>> drives.<br><br>As a Fedora user, I believe that's not the whole truth.<br><br>Like Debian, Fedora is serious about closed source. Fortunately, there is a
<br>large community of Fedora users to fill this obvious gap. ATRpms and Livna<br>are two well-respected repositories you can use to install most drivers and<br>other packages. Currently, I'm using ATRpms for madwifi on some laptops, and
<br>Livna for mplayer and xine.<br><br>Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had to compile anything on Fedora Core<br>unless I want to actually do software development, or use some very new<br>software.<br><br>Chris
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