All I have is my own experience. I stuck a new disk in my 5 year old vaio laptop and installed the latest Ubuntu. Graphics, wireless network, power management all detected automatically. It also had drivers for my HP printer while the windows machine needed 10 minutes with the CD.
Very happy after 6 weeks of solid performance. Dave Patterson. On Jul 12, 5:13 am, Weiqi Gao <[email protected]> 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? > > -- > Weiqi Gao > [email protected]http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
