The archaeology of GNOME accessibility

You have to look out there, though. I think you might be dating yourself a bit. 25GbE (let alone 100) is still unequivocally "enterprise", but my desktop here has a 10GbE Intel X540-AT2 in it. It cost a bit over a hundred quid, and the switch it's attached to was only a bit more expensive. Yes, it didn't come attached to the motherboard by default, but 10GbE is definitely not "crazy expensive enterprise only" any more: it's perfectly practical if you just want your desktop's access to your home RAID array to be as fast as it is on the server itself. (Though this particular NIC, driven by ixgbe, doesn't need any firmware at all.)

... hm, a lot of the things that *do* need firmware are a bit on the pricey side, I'll admit. £590 for a 10GbE NIC? Uh no thanks, Myricom. But not all: Agilio CX cards are only about twice as expensive as the thing in my desktop. (Still not sure why it's worth paying twice as much as Intel charge, mind you.)