Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Linux driver development project bears fruit
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> | In a talk at today's FreedomHEC, the Linux device driver
> | unconference, Kroah-Hartman said, "We have had 12 companies say
> | 'yes please'." One resulting driver is already in the kernel,
> | and five are in progress. About 80 people have signed up to
> | help with drivers, and in an unusual twist for an open source
> | project, not all are developers. Some volunteers are project
> | managers.
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> http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/051807-linux-driver.html
This is fantastic news that will have a significant knock-on effect in
the industry. Looks like what started out as a stunt is actually going
to pay big dividends.
Oh and "FreedomHEC unconference" is a great double antonym!
> Ubuntu and wireless - now better than Windows!
On both counts.
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K.
http://slated.org
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| 'Also, no one calls it PCI-X even though that's the "official "
| shortening of the much more commonly used "PCI Express".'
| - Hardon Quirk, COLA's resident "genius".
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01:06:27 up 32 days, 22:38, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.42, 0.36
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