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On 1 Jan 2007, Peter Cannon outgrape:
> On Sunday 31 December 2006 12:53, Tethys wrote:
>> [1]. They tend to be well supported 
>> under Linux without the need for closed source drivers that leave you
>> with a tainted (and hence unsupportable) kernel, they're more than fast
>> enough, and they've proved less prone to failure than a PCI/AGP/PCIE card
>> in my experience. Plus of course, you don't need to pay extra for them.
>> YMMV.
>
> When I first got into Linux I used to lay awake at night fretting 
> over "xxxx.i386.rpm tainting kernel setting somethingorother flag" then it 
> came to pass that that error message is unimportant unless your a purist as 
> it has no effect what so ever on the kernel performance. :-)

Please tell me this is a troll, unless you consider `renders your kernel
impossible to support; renders bugs impossible to fix; renders upgrades
impossible shortly after the binary module vendor decides to stop working
on the module' to be `no effect what so ever'.

A lot of binary modules are also immense monstrous lumps outmassing all
the rest of the kernel put together: this has detrimental effects on
icache hit rates and thus, er, slows the kernel down.

> P'S what does YMMV mean?

Your Mileage May Very, and I think here it does.

-- 
`He accused the FSF of being "something of a hypocrit", which
 shows that he neither understands hypocrisy nor can spell.'
   --- jimmybgood
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