[Tfug] ubuntu (troll?)

[Claude Rubinson]

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