[Tfug] ubuntu (troll?)

[sitkaa at email.arizona.edu]

The list is right, I was a troll yesterday.

(Self-flagillation ensues) Please forgive me.

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Quoting "Malcolm's Honey Co." <mjs355 at comcast.net>:

> Claude Rubinson wrote:
>> 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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> There is one hardware item for which almost no driver exists for Linux,
> i.e., the so called winmodem or internal modem. I found this out when
> helping a friend who lives in a remote enough area that the telephone is
> the only available internet access. An internal modem uses the central
> processor as a controller via some software (the driver). The solution
> is to use an external modem which has its own controller - just plug it
> in - no software required. External modems also have the advantage that,
> since they have their own controller, they use less of the computer's
> resources and thus provide a somewhat faster surfing experience.
>
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