Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 19:32:57 -0300


In message <199809192149.PAA06141@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca>, Michal
Jaegerman
n writes:
+-----
| With a proliferation of binary-only UDI drivers for Linux, and growing
| portion of "just users" who do not know better, there is an extremely
| good chance that that story will become a "Linux story". I am also quite
+--->8

And therefore it's better that device drivers be available only in, as you
put it,

| "Unix/Linux is for propeller-heads only user-unfriendly immature system
| with a bad interface".

because they require a kernel recompile to use? It sounds to me like your
take is that the Joe Sixpack and Magazines-for-Dummies crowd will screw us
either way.

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brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university

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