Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Horst von Brand wrote:

> Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> i disagree, you make it sound like it takes weeks of effort to find out
>> which stuff works on linux, and that basically you have to be lucky to
>> find it at all...
>
>> basically the only thing that doesent work (i dont count binary-only
>> solutions working) is nvidia and ati.
>
> Count several WiFi cards into it too. Perhaps very-high-end stuff.
>
> And what doesn't work well on Linux in "normal PCs" (rock-bottom priced
> stuff, mostly) doesn't work well at all, period.
> --
> Dr. Horst H. von Brand                   User #22616 counter.li.org
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Talk about rock-bottom stuff, does anybody know if I can build
a file-system on a CompactFlash card that plugs into a USB adapter
from Linux (like those marketed by Kodak) ??

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13.4 on an i686 machine (5589.55 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
.

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