[Tfug] [sitkaa at email.arizona.edu: Re: ubuntu (troll?)]

[Claude Rubinson]

Redirecting this message back to this list where I assume it was
intended to go.

C.

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From: sitkaa at email.arizona.edu
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:04:49 -0700
Subject: Re: [Tfug] ubuntu (troll?)
To: Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>

That is great, I stand corrected, something for which I am glad. Closing this
hole in linux's implementation model will go far to make its use more
adoptable.

But, from my own experience, I wonder how true this is. Without alot of help
from a semi-professional (UA OSCR) group I would never have gotten my
(bluetooth) mouse, or video card, or wifi, or etc to work with Ubuntu, much
less a more difficult distro. And I haven't even tried to connect some other
items to linux. But again, I do recognize that things are getting better.

I suppose what I was leaning towards in suggesting better driver support was
somehow enticing the electronics industry to provide these drivers, just as it
does for other OS's. Are there organized linux efforts to do this? How are 
they
going about this?

And I do need a good WYSIWYG to replace Dreamweaver. I looked over the  
available
attempts and ended up shelling out for the Adobe programs. And how about some
ESRI interface?




Quoting Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:14:16PM -0700, sitkaa at email.arizona.edu wrote:
>> 4. and driver issues.
>
> It's time to start stomping out the "lack of drivers" myth:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/276973/.
>
>> From the executive summary:
>
>   The Linux Driver Project (LDP) is alive and well, with over 300
>   developers wanting to participate, many drivers already written and
>   accepted into the Linux kernel tree, and many more being currently
>   developed.  The main problem is a lack of projects.  It turns out that
>   there really isn't much hardware that Linux doesn't already support.
>   Almost all new hardware produced is coming with a Linux driver already
>   written by the company, or by the community with help from the
>   company.
>
>   There are two main classes of hardware, video input devices and
>   wireless network cards, that is not well supported by Linux, but large
>   efforts are already underway to resolve this issue, with the wireless
>   driver issue pretty much taken care of already, however there are a
>   few notable exceptions.
>
> Claude
>
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