17 Dec
2004
17 Dec
'04
8:39 a.m.
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 04:14, thewade wrote:
This is absolutely wrong. 80% of hardware outside the server world is
not supported at all, the rest is supported by reverse-engineered
drivers or supported thanks to companies giving out some specs and
developers doing work for free.
The driver issue is one of the main *problems* that need to be solved in
order to bring linux into the mainstream.
Marek
Correct me if
I\'m wrong here ... but ... lack of supported hardware is
part of the reason people don\'t migrate to *nix operating systems; and
another is the frightening complexity involved in doing anything with
*nix which the OS and its software inherits from the relatively small,
disorganized, underfunded community.
Minor correction: More hardware is supported in linux then in windows/mac
as far as I can tell.