On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:03:49AM +0530, SEN wrote:
> Almost all internal PCI modems will fail to work,(except those for
> which OSS drivers have been written, which is rare.) though it is
> hardly Linux's fault.
I'll not comment on the political aspects of whether it's Linux's
fault or not. That's -general stuff, and I'm sure people have seen
enough of me there :)
> some arn't even released.) These modems also end up chewing valuable
> processor cycles during operation.
This is not a valid argument any more. A 450 MHz AMD K6-2 sells for
US $39. There is plenty of cheap CPU out there.
Get a "real" modem, isn't a valid argument. If you make that argument,
Linux will lose - for the same reasons why BSD lost to Linux (in
popularity), by telling people to get a SCSI disk instead of IDE.
-Arun
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