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

From: Horst von Brand
Date: Thu Dec 08 2005 - 15:44:32 EST


Kasper Sandberg <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> i disagree, you make it sound like it takes weeks of effort to find out
> which stuff works on linux, and that basically you have to be lucky to
> find it at all...

> basically the only thing that doesent work (i dont count binary-only
> solutions working) is nvidia and ati.

Count several WiFi cards into it too. Perhaps very-high-end stuff.

And what doesn't work well on Linux in "normal PCs" (rock-bottom priced
stuff, mostly) doesn't work well at all, period.
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