Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Wed Dec 07 2005 - 13:38:59 EST


On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 02:18 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > I am convinced that the only way to stop the erosion is to totally stop
> > buying hardware that has only binary only drivers

> this only works if more people than "just Andrea and Arjan" do it
> though.

This worked very well in the late 1990's, when various
sites had Linux hardware compatibility lists.

Does anybody still maintain a list like that today (with
components, not just whole certified systems) ?


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