Langa bashing (was Re: Problems getting Linux into homes)

[Darryl Luff]

John Lagrue schrieb:

> ...

> The "not having a clue" seems to be on the part of those who can't see 
> straight. Fred's whole article is about the lack of ease of installing 
> Linux with any hardware. Hiss whole thrust is that all varieties of 
> Windows works with his hardware, whereas Linux doesn't. Of course that 
> is because lack of drivers provided by the hardware manufacturers, but 
> that is beside the point. The whole point being that Linux is still 
> not entirely ready for the home market, when compared to Micro$oft's 
> installations.
>
> What we do about that is another discussion.
>
> John
>
Actually for a lot of hardware Linux works far better than Windows. 
Mainly because of the way drivers are designed for generic chipsets 
rather than for specific products. When I popped out my 3Com PCMCIA card 
and popped in another brand, Linux automatically loaded the right driver 
and applied my eth0 settings, and amazingly the SSH session I had open 
to another machine was still active!

It took me a week of downloads and reboots to get the same card running 
under windows 2000 on the same machine.

New video cards seem to be the only hardware I have driver trouble with 
under Linux now!