On Oct 11, 2006, at 7:36 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
I've been running Linux since kernel 0.99pl13, I think it was, and have had amazingly little trouble. Whereas I'm now sitting on $2k of hardware that won't do what I wanted it to do under Solaris, so it's a bit of a hot-button issue for me right now.
Yes, but remember back in the days of Linux 0.99, the amount of PC hardware was nowhere near as varied as it is today. Integrated chipsets? A pipe dream! Aside from video card chips and proprietary pre-ATAPI CDROM interfaces, you didn't have to reach far to find a driver which covered a given piece of hardware because when you got down to it, most hardware was the same. NE2000, anyone?
Today, in 2006 - much different story. I even had Linux AND Solaris problems with my machine's MCP51 chipset when it first came out. Both forcedeth and nge croaked on it. Welcome to the bleeding edge. You're unfortunately on the bleeding edge of hardware AND software.
When in that situation, one can be patient, be helpful, or go back to where one came from.
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