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From: Moshe Goldfarb on 7 May 2008 11:32 On Wed, 7 May 2008 08:42:18 -0400, DFS wrote: > "My equipment is fairly standard. I have a 3yo P4 with 1gig ram and a > Gigabyte GA=8S661FXM-775 motherboard, 160gig HDD and an external 250gig usb > HDD. In addition, there are 4xUSB sticks and a 19" Viewsonic monitor. A > Logitech Quickcam family webcam and a Canon Pixma MP160 printer completes > the setup. All this runs happily using XP. > ... > ... > Let me say that of ALL the distros I have downloaded and tried, not one, I > repeat, not a single one, has enabled me to get all of my equipment working > satisfactorily." > > http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1327806771&t=28030 Standard complaint. And the Linux loons will tell him he should have done more research when selecting hardware. That argument carries no weight when the person already owns the hardware and all of it works, and works fully, under Windows. Linux should get it's act together and do whatever it takes to get support. Evidently the hardware manufacturers, like the BBC have determined that Linux at less than 1 percent of the desktop market, is not worth developing for. Redhat seems to agree as they have dumped their consumer desktop Linux program. -- Moshe Goldfarb Collector of soaps from around the globe. Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots: http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
From: Douglas O'Neal on 7 May 2008 11:55
On 05/07/08 11:32, Moshe Goldfarb wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2008 08:42:18 -0400, DFS wrote: > >> "My equipment is fairly standard. I have a 3yo P4 with 1gig ram and a >> Gigabyte GA=8S661FXM-775 motherboard, 160gig HDD and an external 250gig usb >> HDD. In addition, there are 4xUSB sticks and a 19" Viewsonic monitor. A >> Logitech Quickcam family webcam and a Canon Pixma MP160 printer completes >> the setup. All this runs happily using XP. >> ... >> ... >> Let me say that of ALL the distros I have downloaded and tried, not one, I >> repeat, not a single one, has enabled me to get all of my equipment working >> satisfactorily." >> >> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1327806771&t=28030 > > Standard complaint. > > And the Linux loons will tell him he should have done more research when > selecting hardware. > > That argument carries no weight when the person already owns the hardware > and all of it works, and works fully, under Windows. Under which version of Windows? How many people had to toss hardware when they moved from 98 to ME/2000/XP? How many more had to toss hardware less than a year old in order to move to Vista? > > Linux should get it's act together and do whatever it takes to get support. Windows should get its act together to support near-current hardware. > > Evidently the hardware manufacturers, like the BBC have determined that > Linux at less than 1 percent of the desktop market, is not worth developing > for. > > Redhat seems to agree as they have dumped their consumer desktop Linux > program. Since you can get a working linux desktop for free it is hard to make money selling one. How many companies make money selling support for windows desktops? That number should tell you something about windows. -- Dr. Douglas O'Neal Manager, Bioinformatics Center Delaware Biotechnology Institute (302) 831-3456 |