2006/2/23, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > With all the myriad hardware out there the open source community > > cannot possibly develop drivers for everything. > > 5 years ago, I would have maybe believed this. > Today, no. > First, the open source community has gotten a lot bigger > but second, and more important: > Hardware is standardizing more and more (on the OS<->hardware interface > level). Look at i810 audio for example. USB is a good other example. > AHCI sata as well. > > These are not accidents! They are for cost saving reasons: if you're > supported by a driver already shipping in windows XP, you as hardware > vendor don't need to do a lot of work -> saves costs, and more, time to > market -> profit. > > As a side effect of this, linux is increasingly better off. > > Sure there are exeptions, esp in the 3D space, but even there they do > fully new architectures only every 18 months or so, just because it's so > expensive to do entirely new drivers and then maintain them. > (even when they are bundled as part of a "unified driver", most of these > new architectures are de-facto new drivers, just merged into one binary > file) > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > >From personal experience i do agree. simple example: socket 939 nforce 4x board fc4 vs winxp pro sp2 integrated: FC4: everything working out of the box no additional drivers needed besides raid didnt work in the installer. (known problem) Rawhide: Raid controller works out of the box aswell WinXP pro SP2: Onboard nic not working at all and downloading of driver not possible since no working NIC. regards, Rudolf Kastl -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
