On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> I almost forgot to tell you that firewire support is disabled in the >> distro kernel. This is upstream's decision. > > wow :-( > > Why did they do that? Well, this is just my guess -- enterprise class Linux is (used to be) primarily for servers and therefore there is not much demand for things like firewire and wireless and... The situation *might* change if/when upstream start pushing toward the desktop world. Akemi