-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > Here is a challenge: > Take a trip to your local Office Depot and grab some peripherals at > random (printer, network cards, etc.) see how many of these devices will > work right out of the box in both Windows and > GNU/Linux; then see how easy and/or intuitive would be to "get > everything to work" in both OS. > > GNU/Linux is a superb operating system. No one(specially me) disputes > that; but at the same time one would be hard pressed to say the above > experiment would be easier to accomplish under GNU/Linux. > OK, I will bite. I have this Office Depot branded USB thingy on my desk. Lets plug it in to my Windows box. Hmm, it looks like some sort of networking interface but it is asking for a disk. I can't see a disk on my desk. Not a lot of really interesting info on the USB device to google for this driver thing.
Lets plug it in to my Linux laptop... less than 10 seconds later I have a wireless adaptor that is ready to rock and roll. dmesg even tells me the chipset of this thing so I can now download drivers for my Windows computer... oh wait, most "average users" do not know how to do either. Which reminds me, my Dad needs help with a new printer that he just bought, it works with his Linux machine but he is having troubles when he boots into windows. It seems the CD with drivers do not have Vista versions... weird he just bought this thing a week ago... Also, there is an open invitation to hardware manufacturers to have drivers written for them, even under an NDA. Greg Kroah-Hartman is the guy leading the charge here. If there are no Linux drivers, the only blame is with the hardware manufacturer. One final note, buying random hardware is dumb, I don't care what OS you are using. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpZEasACgkQwRXgH3rKGfPCYQCffVal/2xBuUycB32icQQMtm8B Ng0An1k5L7P+iXEqn2xnR5TY3S7ma4bl =3L2Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
