One of the biggest hindrance towards adoption of Linux has always been that all the system hardware is not supported by the kernel. I don't know how true this statement is in today's context. Modern distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, etc have an exceptional hardware support and it is evident from the fact that almost all of the machines today function out of the box. However, as Jwalanta rightfully said in twitter, its a pain in Windows, specially when you dont have your driver CD by your side for rescue. If just in case you dont have the CD, wow, you got to find the right hardware first, then scour the internet for the drivers and finally download then, which at times is more than few hundred MBs. Finally, after finding all the drivers (i.e., if your NIC or Modem works without the drivers), it will take a good part of an hour and good number of restarts before all your hardware drivers are installed and ready for use. And people say its still difficult to run, use Linux. :)
I agree to the fact that there are still many shortcomings in number and type of hardware supported by Linux (winmodem being the most crucial one), we have to admit the fact that, Linux does support more hardware than Windows does when it comes to 'out of the box' manner. So, though Linux still has some quirks as far as support and availability off the shelf drivers are concerned, I think its better than M$ in almost every respect and I personally love it for what it is. Godspeed Linux, OSS and its derivatives. -- Shishir Jha EPC 1970,GPO 8975, KTM,NEPAL --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
