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Dell Could Be A Big Key In Linux Adoption

Posted by gsh on · 4 comments
MadPenguin.org; By Matt Hartley 		Mail this story
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Better hardware support - this is something we would all like to see happen. And it seems that it could happen, thanks in part to a Dell supported project known as DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support).

I may be off here, but I could have sworn this has been used for sometime now? DKMS has been said to already be at work in Mandriva (also PCLinuxOS) and Ubuntu, among other common distros. However, there's a bigger question that needs to be answered - by making this easier, is this not a path to more goofs after kernel updates? Well, it's a nice idea not to have to manually rebuild modules, I suppose.

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Comments (4)

bigg ·
And the Dell page that the article says does not work opens fine for me. I can configure an Ubuntu system. So I think we may need to wait for an official answer.
jdixon ·
> And the Dell page that the article says does not work opens fine for me.

Ditto.
Abe ·
The link is OK.

I never thought some would stoop so low and so desperate to generate hits. That is all what it seems to be.

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