[CentOS] Firefox slower on GMail since update to CentOS 5.5

[Les Mikesell]

On 5/27/2010 1:49 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Ah, no, it's not. Brian had it right: nvidia does keep a lot
>>> proprietary,  and does *not* pay a lot of attention to writing their
>>> own drivers for Linux.
>>
>> Exactly - and it is linux that intentionally makes it difficult to
>> impossible to use such software even if others would like to give it to
>> you on their own terms.  Just put the blame in the right place.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote. How does Linux make it
> "difficult to impossible"? It's an o/s, with POSIX calls, just like all
> the other unices. It's not M$, and it's not Apple... so is being neither
> making it hard?

For one thing, the license terms do not permit including software with 
differing terms (hence no zfs, etc. even though source is freely 
available), and for another the interfaces keep changing so binaries 
can't be expected to work after updates.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com