On Jul 12, 4:30 pm, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe the main point is that you can tell before the buy if it is > going to work. I suspect most Mac users will buy only those products > that are labeled to work with MacOS. Hardly anything gets labeled to > work with Linux, partly since "Linux" is too vague -- MS and Apple tend > to produce a much smaller set of platforms to develop against.> Windows is > the gold standard of hardware support because > > they have to support *everything*.
Yes, that's the point I was trying to make -- for Windows and Mac the device/peripheral manufacturer will supply the driver or ensure that it works without one. When I go to Fry's and buy stuff I always look for the "works with OSX" icon on the box -- and I can usually throw away the Windows device driver that comes with the device; until now everything has just worked out of the box with the builtin drivers in OSX. It's pretty rare to find "Works with Linux" on boxes. I was pretty excited a couple of months ago when I was at Fry's and I saw this: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/resource/pc_mac_and_sun.jpg The device was advertising that it works with "PC, Mac and Sun" ! I'm sure most devices work with Linux -- especially if the devices aren't new. The story from some other post in this thread of somebody taking their 5 year old system and hooking it up to Ubuntu flawlessly didn't surprise me in the least. But where you can run into trouble is if you buy a brand new top of the line graphics card, or something obscure like a fingerprint validator. Anyway, this probably won't be a problem at all since I suspect ChromeOS isn't intended as an OS you download and install on your custom built super system, but something installed by manufacturers on netbooks as well as desktop systems to bring the cost down instead of a Windows license. In those situations, where they are preconfiguring everything (and hopefully installing device drivers to work with most printers) it should be fine. -- Tor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
