[wellylug] VMWare price drop

David Zanetti dave2 at wetstring.net
Fri May 7 19:32:37 NZST 2004


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On Fri, 7 May 2004, Simon Blake wrote:

> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:42:17AM +1200, David Zanetti said:
> > Running 2.6 here on my work machine, it's great. Sure, some drivers are
> > not ported to the new model yet, but there's shiny new drivers you can't
> > get in 2.4 (like reverse engineered nForce NIC drivers! yay!)..
> 
> <obnitpick>
> 
> the reverse engineered nForce drivers went into stock 2.4.25 aways back, 
> and was updated several times before 2.4.26 came out.  So there are lots 
> of shiny reasons to run 2.6, but the nforce drivers isn't necessarily 
> one of them.
> 
> </obnitpick>

Ah well. Back when I first got an nForce board, it was Painfull that there
was only binary ones for 2.4.x at the time, but that was back in about .22
I think.. 

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