Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Linux this year and next
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> | Jonathan Corbet, co-author of Linux Device Drivers, analyzed Linu
> | changes over the past year and makes some predictions for the future
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> | [...]
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> | Proprietary device drivers aren't working, Corbet said as he showed
> | a text-filled slide full of reasons. "It's not a way we can go, we
> | cannot give in to it, and I don't think we're going to have to."
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> http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/042007-linux-predictions.html?page=1
I hope that dream comes true, but it looks likely that the hardware
manufacturers will push onwards with their policy of locking people out
of their hardware, more and more restrictively.
> Recall the vulnerabilities in Wi-fi and GPU binary drivers.
Yes.
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K.
http://slated.org
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| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
22:09:38 up 4 days, 19:41, 3 users, load average: 0.35, 0.26, 0.39
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