interesting article, for all those who think Ubuntu is already easy

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:11:56PM +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:

> Is there some reason why you can't make it easy to configure in teh event that 
> it is necessary adn "just work" at teh same time? It does nto seem to me that 
> it should be an either/or proposal

No, because you're assuming that configuration options have no cost. 
They don't. If you have 30 configuration options and never need to 
touch 25 of them, how likely are you to find the other 5 that you /do/ 
need to touch?

The answer to "I don't have DMA on my drive" is not "Add a checkbox". 
It's "Figure out why you don't have DMA on your drive, and then fix 
that". Have you filed a bug? If not, could you please do so against 
linux-source-2.6.15 with the chipset of your IDE controller and the 
output of

sudo hdparm -i /dev/cdrom

?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org