> > But if it is just for a terminal, there is a lot of drivers you don't > > need. (Well, the video card is generally not the easier to correctly > > drive...) > > Exactly. And wi-fi. And ethernet if it's a cheap broadcom chip. > And sound if it's not usb. And bluetooth so you can use your phone > as a modem. And so on.
the same could be said of linux. 5 years ago when i got a wireless card, i needed to use ndiswrapper to get it going. i also couldn't find a proper driver for my modem, either. but people still built stuff with linux. you can't say that an army of volunteers sprung up and created linux, nor can you say that linux created an army of volunteers. it's like the field of dreams. but it's too big to build by yourself. so you have to build some and a few will come and help build some more. - erik
