Re: [[newbie] Linux for home consumers?]

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> What does it take to write a video card driver that some hotshot unix guru 
> programmer can't come up with? If they can talk the talk, how about trying 
> to walk the walk? I keep hearing about what geniuses inhabit the Unix crowd, 
> how about putting up or shutting up?
> 
> 
It takes some knowledge of the low-level programming for
that video card, which is proprietary information that
Diamond isn't going to release to just anyone. You almost
have to "hack" the hardware to find out how it works.
Granted there are some real geniuses who can do that, but
there is a limited staff available at Xfree86.org who can
do that, since they aren't getting paid for the work!
        John