On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Then there's your company, who seem to be having some basic problems >getting a machine to run, and in your opinion, that completely negates every >other experience. >
Well, to be fair, Linux has a bit more trouble with hardware, since some companies are not willing to provide sufficient details for drivers to be developed. That's what the other Steve ran into with wireless; if the vendor doesn't offer offer support, a device can be hard to run if it doesn't use standard APIs. Linux has a number of solutions to this, like the firmware cutter project, which basically runs a Windows wireless driver in Linux, but that requires some good support. Steve's $200 seemed wasted on that. The local LUG should have been able to help him out and spend the money on pizza and beer. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
