> Yes, what you say is all true: we can take it up with > vendors for driver support or purchase NVidia > graphics cards. But the far more realistic > alternative is just switch to Linux and not deal with > it. From the point of view of a desktop, it's the > best of all possible worlds: it's like Unix and one > enjoys tons of software, open source or otherwise, > your hardware will generally work, and there's a huge > user base. It's called the network effect: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect.
>From the point of the desktop user, yes. >From the point of the developer aiming at the highest volume open-source OS, presently, yes. >From the point of the developer aiming at high quality, portable code, no. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
