And don't forget, with Linux, if my mother buys a lexmark printer and it doesn't work she can just 'write here own driver'. :)
She GPLed her banana bread recipe, so this shouldn't be too difficult for her. (ps. im not bagging linux, im just being silly) On Jul 12, 9:42 pm, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > Because Mac OS X fully supports the hardware it is sold for. > > It's not expected to support more. It's part of the Mac-way. > > One of Linux x86's promises has always been to support the broad range > of x86 hardware. People expect to grab any old x86 system and for Linux > to work. Same goes for Windows. No one -- least of all Applet -- > expects this for Mac OS X. Apple only wants Mac OS X used on their > hardware. > > > > Weiqi Gao wrote: > > [I'm 15 minutes into #266 and I have to pause the podcast and shoot this > > email out. (If I don't and wait till the end, I would forget all about > > it.)] > > > Why is it that when it comes to the question of Linux's hardware > > support, people always bring Windows out for comparison? While in every > > other occasion, people beat Linux with Mac OS X? > > > Surely Linux supports more hardwares than Mac OS X, doesn't it? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
