On Sunday 22 February 2004 4:22 pm, Jeff Vian wrote: > xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >On Sunday 22 February 2004 1:05 pm, Paul wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>>I could try the 2.6 kernel (and I have a LOT of experience with > >>>computers), but what's the use? The 2.6 kernel is not ready for > >>>prime-time, not by a long shot, and neither, it seems, is Linux in > >>>general. > >> > >>Correction. The 2.6.x kernels are ready prime-time. They are far faster > >>and far more efficient than the 2.4.x kernels and support a far larger > >>range of devices. It has two very large advantages over anything MS can > >>offer - one is that it's stable and the second is that it's secure. > >> > >>>I have seen too many bugs and posts on these topics about > >>>SMP/hyperthread/ACPI and other issues that cause the system to lock up > >>>after a time of running or not run at all and no fixes seem to be in > >>>sight - maybe because these problems are intractable without inside > >>>information about ACPI and other things that Intel will give to > >>> Microsoft but not to Open Source developers. > >> > >>Have you ever thought that people don't complain about MS products for > >>two reasons - the first is they know it gets sent to /dev/null and > >>secondly they don't know who to send reports to? > > > >I'll agree with this up to a point. M$ DOES listen in its own fashion, > >otherwise there wouldn't be any updates. > > > >>The big advantage with open source is that the developers listen. > > > >Ok, they listen. Where are the fixes for the latest hardware? > > And you expect fixes yesterday??????? No, of course not.... these bugs have been outstanding since November of last year... even before. > > This OS/application package called Linux gets fixes far faster than any > single OS or application package in the proprietary world. > > One of the biggest problems with fixes, as I am sure you know, is the > fact that hardware manufacturers are not making the > specifications/features of their products readily available to the open > source community. This is changing as the use of open source has > increased and the vendors are starting to see the advantages of > providing needed information to allow software developers to use the > hardware as it was designed. > > Use your voice and $ to influence the hardware vendors to assist and you > will see even faster development on the open source arena. > As some previous poster noted, if these vendors are in the pocket of M$, then my voice will not be heard, and I don't have the $$ that M$ has. -snip-
