Possibly offtopic : Binary only driver

[Michael A. Peters]

On 11/21/2004 07:28:44 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> 
> Anecdotal.
> 
> SP1 to SP2 of XP caused me more issues than any linux upgrade ever  
> did.
> I had to boot SP2 in recovery mode to uninstall virus software that  
> Microsoft recommended as a good vendor for virus checking because the  
> software had a kernel driver that did not work with SP2 - and unlike  
> Linux where a module just simply doesn't load but boot continues,  
> WinXP completely refused to boot except to that aweful emergency mode  
> thing. All because of virus protection software, which definately  
> should not have prevented XP from booting.

I would also like to note my experience with a SCSI card - Linux booted  
no problem with both internal and external drives attached, Windows  
would boot with one or the other - but not both. Termination and SCSI  
ID's were not the issue.

The Linux driver was open source in the kernel. The windows card was  
proprietary closed source.