[vox] Installfest? should be Wouldntitbecooliffest

[Brian E. Lavender]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:25:35PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Brian E. Lavender (brian at brie.com):
> 
> > Back in the day when Installfests were fun, most of us struggled
> > to get things working: sound, video, web server, partitioning, hardware
> > support, you name it.
> > 
> > Those challenges no longer exist! 
> 
> Er....
> 
> > I propose installfest turns into a "Wouldn't it be cool if" fest. So,
> > I propose that we turn it into that, a "wouldntitbecooliffest". No need
> > to have people provide their installation challenges, cause there are
> > none. No need to ask attendees what type of hardware they have: cause
> > if it doesn't work, it probably still won't work!
> 
> Sorry, you've never in recent years solved a problem with getting
> support for a too-recent or otherwise problematic chipset going?  I
> have.  Never encountered in the recent past a laptop with a wifi chipset
> whose manufacturer stupidly refuses the Linux community permission to
> redistribute the required firmware BLOB (**cough** Marvell, Broadcom
> **cough**), but that BLOB can be furnished via separate download?  I have.
> 
> I see this happen a _lot_.
> 
> Nothing wrong with this other thing, of course.  Those sound like fun.

Good we agree! Wouldntitbecooliffest it is! :)

-- 
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture