Re: [Cooker] Call for boycott

[Giuseppe Ghibo']

"Brian J. Murrell" wrote:
 
> "What O/S are you running?"
> "Uhm, Linux."
> "Oh we don't support Linux.  Goodbye."
> "No wait.  It's got nothing to do with the O/S.  It's destroying disks."
> "But we don't support Linux."
> "Linux, Windows, MacOS, it doesn't matter.  The drive is physically
> destroying disks.  It's got nothing to do with the O/S."
> "Sorry, we don't support Linux.  Goodbye."
> 
> That is why I will NEVER do business with Iomega again.  If things work,
> great.  If not though, you are SOL.  That is unacceptable from a vendor.

AFAIK Iomega is distributing beta software for Linux to support
their devices. Looks at:

ftp://ftp.iomega.com/pub/english/*container*.tgz

So it's even no longer true that they do not support Linux... ;-)

Bye.
Giuseppe