On 1/2/06, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/2/06, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2006, at 1:03 PM, (name elided) wrote: > > > I think one of the most important criteria is the drivers availible > > > for the potpourri of hardware that we get in the form of donations, > > > and how easy it is to find and install these drivers. I don't have > > > much linux experience, but the two times I have tried to get it > > > working at home, there is some network card or video card that I > > > can't get working properly. > > He is right - he will have to accept the fact that a good bit of > hardware is unsupported.
Usually older hardware fares better, but it is still possible they will come across unsupported hardware. > Things like winmodems and scanners are quite > hard to get working in Linux. Do winmodems benefit from ndiswrapper? > > > I'm all for ending our pirating ways (ARGHHHHH) but I need to be > > > convinced that that Linux will be practical to use on the mix of > > > equipment we get donated to us. The bottom line is that what they are doing is illegal, even if they are helping people. If they do not have the knowledge/people to support giving people free (really free) computers, perhaps MOSLUG/CWELUG can step up. What better way to learn email than by signing up to this list? dd -- David Dooling _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
