Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: >>> How so? ATI drivers which are buggy and unreliable due to their >>> unsubstantiated paranoia over 'IP'. >> But still better than what we have under Solaris. > > True, but given the unreliability of it, one could argue that it is best > that Solaris doesn't have it.
I'm in the 'beggars can't be choosers' camp myself. I'd rather have unstable/unreliable and choose *not* to use it than nothing at all. At least the former indicates some level of development commitment. >> Agreed - but that's not actually what you said. You said: >> "I do, various distributions, all incompatibile with each other, no >> standardisation process - people wonder why there are no commercial >> applications and hardly any third party hardware support on Linux - >> thats the elephant in the corner of the room." >> >> ... implying that multiple distributions was one of the causes for your >> perceived lack of third party hardware support. > > Yes, there is a lack of 'third party hardware support' or atleast > quality third party hardware support. When are we going to see Apple > officially support iPod on Linux, Sony officially support Minidisc on > Linux, when are we going to see games vendors on Linux. I don't know, but given current marketshare - I'd bet that that support would come on Linux before it came on Solaris - multiple distributions and all. ... anyway, let's just agree to disagree. All this has completely deviated from my original point. :) cheers, steve -- stephen lau // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
