Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Everything comes from Apple or is blessed by Apple.
And how does that differ conceptually from buying a system integrated
by Dell, HP, etc. and pre-loaded with an OS?
Dell didn't write the OS they're bundling.
With Linux, they can. Do you expect that to make it better? I don't.
Both Linux and Windows work on platforms that have, literally,
thousands of vendors manufacturing a tremendous range of equipment,
most of which has to have a properly working device driver.
Yes, and my experience over the last 5 years has been that the Windows
versions are more dependable than the fedora versions. I'm sure there
are individual exceptions to that, but I just don't see fedora as a
bastion of stability here - or in a position to claim that they have
the only approach to drivers that can work.
Perhaps true, but this is not going to change until more hardware
manufacturers support free software.
I realize it isn't going to change, but as the binary drivers that are
just fine under windows prove, it isn't the hardware manufacturers' fault.
> For hardware manufacturers that
support free software, their hardware has always been rock solid. Case
in point: I've used various Adaptec SCSI HBAs for more than a decade.
Never had a problem, except for one stretch, which has mostly due to me
using a bleeding edge (at that time) 64bit Opteron.
You were lucky. There was another time in the RH9/FC1 era where they
didn't work with the updated controllers, but Windows was in the same
shape until they did a respin of their install CD, probably around
win2ksp2. And the windows installer was too dumb to load the driver
from anything but a stock floppy so this was really painful on servers
that did not have floppy drives. At least fedora could get it from a CD
or USB floppy.
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Les Mikesell
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