Op 11-08-12 01:00, Karl Goetz schreef: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2012, 04:13:00 EST, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl > <mailto:p...@vandervlis.nl>> wrote: > >> Op 10-08-12 19:17, Gunnar Wolf schreef: > >> > Their experience would be better if they also got really free >> > hardware, of course. I have suffered half-done closed controllers, and >> > that has taught me the value of documented hardware and free >> > firmware+controllers. > >> Think about this: it's possible now to install MacOS on a normal PC. But >> then you have the same installation-shit as with Linux. It's difficult, >> bad documented, and in many cases the result is not 100%. But when you >> buy hardware what made for MacOS, then everything works great. The same >> I would like for Linux. > > It works becuase the os includes the drivers it needs to run on the > hardware it got bundled on. Just like systems that ship with solaris, > windows, red hat, etcetera pre installed.
There is more then including drivers. When you test something well, you will find also the little things. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl _______________________________________________ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list Fsf-collab-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss