On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 06:08 +1000, Martin Visser wrote: > To the community. > > Jon's experience probably really demonstrates why Linux isn't going to go > mainstream anytime soon. While I would say 90% of people are going to have > hardware that just works with the most current release of most distros, it > is the 10% that have issues that really stings. > > Surely this hurdle needs to be overcome. With the likes of Canonical, > Redhat, Novell and the like wanting this to work surely there is a need for > some sort of integration centre that hardware vendors can submit their > gadgets for driver development assistance, and qualification? I know that > they do do some of these things and a lot of problems like video and > suspend/resume seem a lot more predicable. > > Or is this simply never going to happen and we just need to put up with it > considering the effect of aggressive competition and the need to get new > stuff out there all the time.
Installed windows on non-mainstream machines lately. You have to find drivers, have conflicts of dlls and other things. I am not saying that it is not a problem, just not doom and gloom. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
