Jim Cornette wrote:
Ian Malone wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Or run an OS that respects its users enough to include the vendor's
drivers - which is what the majority do.
?
<snip>
Regarding "other OSes" respecting their users. I found many
installations for XP that I did which left the network card not
recognized and the video card at 16 colors and 800 x 600. For Linux
installations using the same hardware, the installations all recognized
the video, sound and Ethernet cards without the need to pull in the
drivers from external and post installation sources.
Hence '?'; if you define the majority of OSs to be
MS Windows (interesting definition) then they don't
include the vendors drivers, see also Alan Cox's post.
(Neither will the drivers included in the box be
the most current and bug free.)
--
imalone
