[fab] slashdot question -- driver support

Matt Domsch matt at domsch.com
Wed Aug 9 22:12:12 UTC 2006


On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
> another fun one for any of your thoughts.  My guess is that most of the 
> answer to this question is a philosophic one about proprietary vendors 
> versus open source drivers, but I wanted to throw it out there.
> 
> -----------
> 
> 2) Drivers Vs Linux
> (Score:5, Interesting)
> by eldavojohn
> 
> A lot of people I talk to say they don't like Linux due to lack of driver 
> support. Is there anyway you see this problem being eliminated? How do you 
> court vendors to support their hardware on your flavor of Linux?


Insert link to gregkh's OLS keynote slide deck where he addresses this
directly and claims *more* hardware is supported by Linux
out-of-the-box than any other OS  - ever.

-Matt




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