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Drivers? Don’t talk to me about drivers
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| Yet again, I butted up against the supposed ease of installation and
| configuration of Windows (in this case, XP). I passed a ThinkPad T40 on to a
| friend of mine and, because he’s all thumbs when it comes to computers
| (except for using certain software), I offered to help him install XP.
|
| [...]
|
| What the????
|
| There was no audio. No ethernet. And, most importantly, no wireless. The
| hardware wasn’t recognized, and didn’t appear in the device manager. So much
| for auto detection and plug-and-play. And this was a ThinkPad. Good old IBM
| hardware. Not strange, non-standard components from some obscure firm
| somewhere.
|
| [...]
|
| The Ubuntu experience
|
| A while back, I installed Ubuntu on exactly the same hardware. Well, not
| exactly — the hard drive on that ThinkPad was a 40 GB model. And guess what?
| Ubuntu automatically detected my hardware. Ethernet, wireless, audio … they
| all worked without me having to go into a repository or download and compile
| a driver. They just worked.
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http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/?p=228
Recent:
Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008
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| The Linux Driver Project (LDP) is alive and well, with over 300 developers
| wanting to participate, many drivers already written and accepted into the
| Linux kernel tree, and many more being currently developed. The main problem
| is a lack of projects. It turns out that there really isn't much hardware
| that Linux doesn't already support. Almost all new hardware produced is
| coming with a Linux driver already written by the company, or by the
| community with help from the company.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/276973/
Related:
Linux device driver project needs more unsupported devices to work on!
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| The problem is that even though Kroah-Hartman and his developers are willing
| to sign NDAs (nondisclosure agreements) for companies that are reluctant to
| open up their devices to open source, businesses are still hanging
| back. "What we need now is more companies participating in the project,"
| Kroah-Hartman said.
|
| [...]
|
| He also wondered if the problem of Linux device drivers has been
| overstated...
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6669895837.html
Avoid Linux device support issues: A few minutes of research can make all the
difference
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| You may have heard stories of Linux not being able to support some critical
| pieces of hardware, such as 3D graphics cards or WiFi. While Linux actually
| supports more hardware than any other operating system out there, it is
| certainly annoying when the one piece of hardware you need is not on the
| list.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/4358
Linux: Stable API vs. Not?
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| As Linux supports a larger number of different devices "out of the box" than
| any other operating system, and it supports these devices on more different
| processor architectures than any other operating system, this proven type of
| development model must be doing something right :)
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http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/linux_stable_api_vs_not.php
A Vista vs. Linux Matchup
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| Putting aside Apple hardware, where all the software works with
| all the hardware so long as it's all up to the minute, I found
| that MEPIS actually has better hardware support for this PC
| than Vista.
|
| [...]
|
| Adding insult to injury, since DRM protection schemes must
| evolve constantly, to stay ahead of hackers tearing them down,
| I have little doubt that one day you'll come home to find that
| a Vista update to DRM-protection has just locked you out of your
| media collection. You know, the same collection, which had
| worked just fine the day before. Repeat after me: DRM does
| not belong in operating systems.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT9325931427.html
Free Linux Driver Development!
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| Yes, that's right, the Linux kernel community is offering all
| companies free Linux driver development. No longer do you have
| to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux
| Device Driver Kit, or pick through the thousands of example
| drivers in the Linux kernel source tree trying to determine
| which one is the closest to what you need to do.
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http://www.kroah.com/log/2007/01/29/#free_drivers
Linux Hardware Support
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| Here's the problem with that argument: Most hardware does not
| work "Out of the box" in Windows. When people say their hardware
| worked "Out of the box" I don't think they are talking about "Out
| of the blue Windows XP box." What I think they mean is "Out of
| the Dell box."
|
| [...]
|
| The catch is that you must buy hardware that is supported by the
| software you intend to run on it. Is this really so unreasonable?
| Would you buy a Sun Spark workstation and try to run Windows on it?
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http://www.jeeperscats.com/?p=7
Newspaper: Window Vista can clear out a medicine cabinet
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| But Michelle’s new HP desktop computer won’t recognize it – a printer made by
| the same company. Indeed, Vista will not recognize it, other than to say it
| doesn’t work with Vista. HP’s website says a new Vista driver (the software
| that tells the computer how to use specific hardware) is in the works, but
| nearly a year since the launch of Vista, I doubt it will ever come out.
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http://vistasucks.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/newspaper-window-vista-can-clear-out-a-medicine-cabinet/#more-756
HP all-in-one device works great with Linux
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| Once the ink cartridges have been installed and aligned --
| the unit first prints an alignment page, then scans it to
| check for needed adjustment -- Windows and Mac OS users are
| told to load their respective CDs to install the drivers.
| Linux users can scoff at the intellectual property
| handcuffs imposed on their non-free brothers and sisters
| and simply configure the unit from the friendly confines of their
| distribution.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/03/203206
The Epson Stylus C88 Printer, works in Linux but not in Windows?
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| Now, I'm confused. I installed Ubuntu on a spare machine
| because my printer started printing all wrong. I just
| completed sharing it with CUPS and Samba and what happens?
| It still prints all wrong from Windows!
|
| [...]
|
| Just so you know, I did go back and install the drivers that
| came on the CD-ROM, same problem. I then downloaded the most
| recent drivers from Epson, same problem.
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http://hmtk.com/blog/index.php?/archives/82-The-Epson-Stylus-C88-Printer,-works-in-Linux-but-not-in-Windows.html
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