gabriel wrote: > 2. sadly, linux also needs corporate support. not the "we back > linux" mantra recited by ibm, but actual driver support from hardware > manufacturers so that products like video cards, sound cards and > various usb webcams etc. "just work" out of the box, rather than > requiring a long, painful search for howtos etc.
This point is going to take a long while to resolve, and the ball is entirely in Linus's camp. For political reasons, allowing hw manufacturers to create binary only drivers has been made difficult, or at least allowed to remain difficult. Rick Kitty5 NewMedia http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x231E1CEA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
