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."
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