John escribió: True windoze takes a long time to install but
hardware drivers are always available. Not so with linux.
Please read this http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/linux_driver_project_status-2008-04.html section "The Linux Driver Myth" , that's how the reality looks like. There is also a bit
of oss snobbery concerning closed source drivers eg Samsung printers
OSS has its rules as well, just like the propietary software world, rules are just different of course and why
can't for instance nvidia drivers be maintained surely the give the interface away freely.
This is a question you should ask NVIDIA, not to us.
The community should be glad they make the effort.
No, THEY should be glad because they made more money and can save even more if they release the specs of their hardware and let people who really knows how to write code to help them. Personally I dont disaprove graphics card drivers for being propietary, but because they are CRAP that works very poorly ( some of them hurt so much..) -- "Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.” - Edsger W. Dijkstra Cristian Rodríguez R. Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development http://www.opensuse.org/