On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:29, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > So USB keyboard, USB mouse, etc. etc. all work well in Mac and windows > because there are helper applications to make it happen and open > standards that the devices conform to. Linux will get there very soon. > Some distros already work like that. The hardware and drivers are not > the issue.
Mandrake would be one of those distros, in case you were wondering. Plug in a usb scanner and an icon for xsane appears on your desktop. Plug in a camera, an icon for gtkam appears on your desktop. Very nice (and no, Mike, no adds appear along with those icons ;) Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
