On 6/11/06, Hamorszky Balazs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm looking for some help on an article on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems
I think this is an exercise in futility, for staying up-to-date, for trying to be unbiased and non-arbitrary. what qualifies a driver to be called "official"? i'd say, it should _at least_ be supportable by the system developers. also there are other companies who produce binary blobs, which aren't listened. and there is a multitude of drivers for most of the os' which aren't listed. what entitles an architecture to deserve a "row" in the table? e.g. "cell" clearly qualifies as "other" in my book, being only supported by linux, but "vax" should deserve a row, both because more than one os support it and there exist quite some instllations around, more than a few dev-kits. the same with file systems (e.g. zfs, reiser4) (...rest of rant deleted, it's already off topic...) oh, and don't tell me i shall participate. --knitti
