bobkoure;257226 Wrote: > The windows issue is the HAL (hardware adaptation layer). In earlier > versions of NT, you could swap hardware, stick your NT CD in, boot to > that CD, run "repair" and that would replace your old HAL with the > right one. > This went to "sometimes worked" in Win2K, and they seem to have > completely disabled it in XP/2K3. > > I was an NT driver developer at one point and got to see this stuff "up > close and personal". > > The driver and HAL architecture is actually not bad - but the fact that > they just abandoned efforts to make the HAL reloadable is, indeed, an > example of what's wrong with closed source software... The problem windows has here is that it doesn't have the drivers on disk. In Ubuntu Linux every possible driver there is is compiled as a module so that it is loaded if the corresponding hardware is being found. This way of building a kernel gives slightly more overhead and a bit bigger kernel but it runs on almost everything....
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