Phil Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Who, if any of you, rely on linux as a desktop machine? It has been
I've been running Linux as my sole (graphical) desktop since 1995. I believe millions of others do as well. > represented to me that some hardware, i.e. certain modems and printers, > only run on Microsoft windows. While I accept the statement on its face, > I wonder why. Are the codes to make appropriate drivers impossible to > write using unix or linux, or has a means to write an appropriate code > just not yet been discovered, or what? Further, with respect to the If hardware makers do not give out the specs to their hardware, it must be reverse-engineered. Grab a knoppix cd (www.knoppix.net) and run it. Sounds like you'll be surprised. -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...and one script to rule them all." gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5
