Scott Leighton wrote:
On Saturday 12 June 2004 10:44 am, Donn Washburn wrote:
Care to straighten this Guy out?
Not really, he's dead on right. I agree with him 100%.
Scott
He is only partially correct and burying half-truths and uninformed perspective within a presumably thoughtful article leads to others parroting the same unclear thinking. He needs to start with the context that hardware is only difficult to address because hardware manufacturers release inadequately complete driver sets. He needs to observe that even when hardware manufacturers market defective devices (e.g. winmodems) Linux folks have been able work around some of that junk and force functionality. He also needs to observe that a pattern of Microsoft manipulation has long-since been documented wherein they have pressured hardware manufacturers to refuse to release sufficient data to allow Linux folks to do what they (the manuafacturer) should -- package Linux drivers along with MS and Mac drivers. He needs to note that SuSE 9 and 9.1 and Mandrake 10 and other newer distros load and run with similar levels of ease to XP -- but that just as with XP one must choose approved hardware -- because XP will not run on any hardware anywhere anytime -- though there are far more companies configuring their PC's to favor XP compatibility than those doing so for Linux -- the advantage of M$'s current superior user-base position in the marketplace. 'nuff said. HTH ... dmc -- Blessings ... dmc West Central Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This E-mail was generated using SuSE 9.0 Linux & Mozilla. This PC is free of all Microsoft products. Visit: www.suse.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~