Ubuntu Failure Story

On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:08:16AM -0500, Harold wrote:
> Non-plugandplay boards as well as ISA boards in many older machines are 
> a challenge.  Though most issues can be overcome, it does take more than 
> typical know-how to find setup information and the files to put them in, 
> as it often has to be done with a text editor to start-up files. 
> 
> Sometimes we forget the bad old days with everything non-standard from 
> sound boards to modems and nic cards.

While this is true, systems from the era in question quite often have PCI
buses and PNP cards.  Regardless, there exists no piece of hardware for
which a missing driver causes Synaptic to completely fail to start, or the
CD player application to crash, as described in that article.

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 - mdz