On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 04:14, thewade wrote: > > Correct me if I\'m wrong here ... but ... lack of supported hardware is > > part of the reason people don\'t migrate to *nix operating systems; and > > another is the frightening complexity involved in doing anything with > > *nix which the OS and its software inherits from the relatively small, > > disorganized, underfunded community. > > Minor correction: More hardware is supported in linux then in windows/mac > as far as I can tell. This is absolutely wrong. 80% of hardware outside the server world is not supported at all, the rest is supported by reverse-engineered drivers or supported thanks to companies giving out some specs and developers doing work for free. The driver issue is one of the main *problems* that need to be solved in order to bring linux into the mainstream. Marek
