Rom Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 18, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Roberto Verzola wrote: >> Hardware - linux versions depend on hardware specs. Eg, ubuntu may >> not work on a new pc but other versions may > > Whilst this is a common problem of distributions, it is not difficult > to find a solution to the drivers. The same can be said of Windows - > whilst it can support a given hardware, it still require the > manufacturer's drivers to function properly.
Heh, sometimes even the manufacturer's WHQL'd (or was it WHCL'd :P) drivers will simply not work with the corresponding hardware. In my desktop's early days (that is, before I got around to using Linux) I was constantly plagued by Windows borking due to an incompatibility between my video card's hardware/chipset and the supplied drivers--even the reference drivers didn't help much. Ultimately such an incompatibility resulted in my video card becoming inadvertently overclocked, thus physically destroying it. Nowadays I don't worry about hardware anymore, especially with a stack of old Linux CDs around ;) >> - unable to detect scanner, camera > > This is tricky. It depends on the make and model of the scanner and > camera. Modems belong to this category too, as such hardware tend to have software components and/or firmware that's just not free enough to be used and/or developed extensively by the community. >> - very hard to backup a file when linux encounters a problem or >> crashes > > Backup a file? C'mon, how can Windows backup a file when it crashes? > :) In the first place, you backup before anything happens! You don't > wait for a problem to pop up or for the system to crash! :P What's so hard about # tar czpf - /home/phb | (cd /home-backup && tar xzpf -) ? Besides, there's quite a plethora of backup utilities now available for Linux, quite a lot I won't make mention of them here (save it for Google.) >> Software >> - not all plugins are available in firefox for linux >> > C'mon. This depends on the plug-ins. Windows-specific plug-ins > definitely will not work. This is more of a PEBKAC problem than an OS problem. This goes for the rest of the points. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
