[elrepo] Ubuntu's driver Jockey

[nux at li.nux.ro]

Phil Perry writes:

> On 27/10/11 18:46, nux at li.nux.ro wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I see some guys managed to port Ubuntu's driver Jockey to Fedora. Would it
>> be possible to adopt it in Elrepo for EL6? It would benefit most desktop
>> users that have to use drivers from elrepo. I was going to undertake this
>> myself, but you're much more qualified than I am.. and since it concerns
>> drivers, I thought "hey, maybe elrepo can do it" :D
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2011/10/update-proprietary-software-drivers.html
>> http://hedayatvk.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/try-jockey-on-fedora-and-parsidora-15/
>> http://parsidora.sourceforge.net/releases/15/repos/parsidora/SRPMS/
>>
>>
> 
> So is this just another graphical front-end installer for our existing 
> packages?

Yes, somehow, what it does is detects what hardware you have, looks through 
a list of mod aliases and chooses a driver offering to install it. All in a 
graphical way. 

> My own personal opinion - I'm struggling to see the point. I can't 
> really imagine what could be much easier than 'yum install kmod-nvidia' 
> or 'yum update', but then I still recall with anguish battling with that 
> hideous up2date GUI updater back in the RHL days.

It's not for you or me, it's for the computerly challenged :)

Cheerio

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