On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:54, Harry Rickards <hricka...@l33tmyst.com> wrote: > > > On 10 Apr 2009, at 15:46, "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtu...@vianet.ca> wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>>> >>>> Here's the reply I received from Startech. >>>> >>>> Hi Doug, >>>> >>>> Both chipsets (Nvidia and NEC) are natively supported in the Linux = >>>> kernel since 2.4.x, but we do not directly support these cards in Linux, >>>> = >>>> nor have we tested with Debian, so compatibility cannot be guaranteed. >>>> >>> >>> I would recommend letting them know that you will not buy until they >>> support Linux. >> >> But I need it so I will buy it. From their perspective, they know that >> the chipsets are supported in the linux kernel, but with all the >> different distributions and versions (compared to just testing for >> windows), it would be hard for them to test them all. > > What, Windows doesn't have many versions? Just the last few 'main' releases > - XP Home, Xp Pro, XP Corp, XP Home SP1, XP Pro SP1, XP Corp SP1, XP Home > SP2, XP Pro SP2, XP Corp SP2, XP Pro x64 SP2, XP Home SP3, XP Pro SP3, All > the 7 editions of Vista, all the seven editions of Vista SP1 and I won't > even mention Windows 7.
I agree that it is not too hard to test that hardware works on Linux, I disagree with your comparison to Windows versions. With regard to drivers, the different versions of XP and Vista are less different than kernel 2.6.26 to 2.6.27 (to take a random example). Now the differences *between* XP and Vista drivers are more like the differences between 2.4 and 2.6, but that is only two versions. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
