On 10 Apr 2009, at 21:51, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:54, Harry Rickards
<hricka...@l33tmyst.com> wrote:
On 10 Apr 2009, at 15:46, "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtu...@vianet.ca>
wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Here's the reply I received from Startech.
Hi Doug,
Both chipsets (Nvidia and NEC) are natively supported in the
Linux =
kernel since 2.4.x, but we do not directly support these cards
in Linux,
=
nor have we tested with Debian, so compatibility cannot be
guaranteed.
I would recommend letting them know that you will not buy until
they
support Linux.
But I need it so I will buy it. From their perspective, they know
that
the chipsets are supported in the linux kernel, but with all the
different distributions and versions (compared to just testing for
windows), it would be hard for them to test them all.
What, Windows doesn't have many versions? Just the last few 'main'
releases
- XP Home, Xp Pro, XP Corp, XP Home SP1, XP Pro SP1, XP Corp SP1,
XP Home
SP2, XP Pro SP2, XP Corp SP2, XP Pro x64 SP2, XP Home SP3, XP Pro
SP3, All
the 7 editions of Vista, all the seven editions of Vista SP1 and I
won't
even mention Windows 7.
I agree that it is not too hard to test that hardware works on
Linux, I disagree
with your comparison to Windows versions. With regard to drivers,
the different
versions of XP and Vista are less different than kernel 2.6.26 to
2.6.27 (to take
a random example). Now the differences *between* XP and Vista
drivers are
more like the differences between 2.4 and 2.6, but that is only two
versions.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
I agree that there is minimal difference between the different ediions
of Windows, but I thought that there was quite a lot of change between
service packs, especially XP SP 1 to 2 and SP2 to 3. Also, popular
companies, such as Belkin, seem to be supporting quite old Windows
editions. For example, I recently bought a Belkin PCI Ethernet card (I
had some PC World vouchers, and manged to persuade the man in the shop
to give me a guarantee that it would work on Linux, if it was 'made in
the last 5 years', I doubt he even knew what an OS was), that claimed
to work on systems as old as Win95 (I think.) Surely more people use
the latest Linux kernel than use Win95, so they could sell more
products by supporting at least one Linux kernel, and dropping support
for some of the older Windows editions.
Thanks
Harry
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