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making linux more popular



Hi

Well, I wanted to make linux more popular
I wanted to install Linux at my office, at home and give it to friends.

the first problem I've encountered was 'linux is not "user friendly"'
or in other words: no common and microsoft/netscape-like gui.

well, that problem was solved when I installed kde ( see
http://www.kde.org )

the next problem, is that hardware is not fully supported on linux.

I bought ATI-3D Xpression. which had drivers for win95 but not for
linux.
it took me some days to search the net and to install xfree86-3.3.1
( which i already had as rpms, which were out of date. why
XF86-3.3.1.rpm is not the
  same as http://www.xfree86.org/.../XF_MA64-3.3.1.tar.gz i don't know )

you could tell me i should of checked it before i bough it. but i dont
see the
reson why i have to buy old hardware when i buy new computer so it will
be supported by linux).

I also have Creative-Labs AWE-64 which is not fully supported under
linux, even if
I buy the driver from 4front. ( even for the 4front driver awe-64 and
awe-32 has same features)

I've also bought a cd-rewritable (hp cd-writer+ 7100i). it had no
support for linux.
but i was lucky and i knew a friend of mine which wrote the ide-scsi
driver in the kernel.
he gave me a patch and point me to the new cdrecord-7_6-beta. and now i
can use it on TAO.
but still no support for packet-writing or udf or iso9660-ver-3.

it took me a lot of time to be able to use most of my hardware, but why
should
other people which are not addicted to linux do this. why should a
computer-dummy
need to patch and compile the kernel ?.

there are less than 5 milion microsoft users which want hebrew version,
and microsoft gave them one. there are more 5 milion linux users, why
shouldn't they get drivers for hardware thay paid for ?

THE SOLUTION:
if whenever i do not buy a cd-write from a company that is not supported
under linux,
I mail ( email is less efficiant but will do ) that company and say:
I bought prodect 'xxx' from company 'xxx' , serial number 'xxx' and not
from you because you don't support linux.

if all or most of the linux users will do so, I'm sure that companies
which will get a lot of mails, will stop ignoring the linux community.
( and if thay didn't get so many mails, than their products must be not
  important so it's less of a problem )

the reson i included the serial number of the product bought, is to let
the
company understand that we are not joking.

may be it is an idea, that there will be an http-server (cgi
script) which will
make a standard syntax and will mail these companies for the users, and
the
users will only fill the details.

what do you think ?

( and forward it to any linux group you know of )

hoping you take that serious
Erez.