On 6/7/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But don't you think the computer systems of the future would surely > implement something like Gentopia? Things can always be done > manually, but automatic seems like a step forward. On the other hand, > I do agree with the things you're saying. This is why I asked the > question. I'm not sure about this. > > - Grant >
The problem isn't Gentopia or any system like it, I trully admire people that work with this kind of software, the effort of these people often brings users to the Lin systems, but lets look it the other way, I know neither this list nor this topic are meant for that, but since we're here, lets spam a little. The whole PC industry is not standard, if it was, I could unplug my mouse, plug another one completely different and it would work without changing the software. But that's good, cause it means using software allows engineers to develop new hardware that can do things that are very usefull. On the other hand, that means that OS programmers go crazy trying to support all these different hardwares, and with the whole "copyright" stuff, those who create the hardware want to control WHO uses it and do not open its drivers code, this way making the lifes of the OS developers a living hell if they do not make a lot of comercial agreements. That's where Lin looses to M$ (and only there). Now, lets imagine the list of new hardware created every day, its a BIG database, and growing alot, now lets think about 10% of it is not compatible with standard or generic drivers, that is still a LOT of space. So, we get win, with its old 30 Mb space required (3.11), then 200Mb (95/98) and now almost 2Gb (XP). The fact is that we need the hardware corporations to release drivers for its hardware that works on all systems, take a look at NVidia, it took me 10 minutes to install my video drive, both on Win and Lin. What I meant to say is: To support new hardware should be more of a hardware engineer problem than an OS programmer one. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- [email protected] mailing list
