Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

[Sergey Babkin]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> It's quite common for a manufacturer to completely stop
> driver development once a particular model of hardware
> (say a certain video card) is no longer sold.
> 
> This, in turn, leads to the situation where the user has
> to chose between the following options:
> 
> 1. don't upgrade the software, because a driver is not
>    available for the new system
> 2. upgrade the hardware to a version which has a
>    driver available for the new software

The answer is: make the new systems binary compatible with old
drivers. What all the commercial Unix systems try to do to some
degree. And of course the ultimate technology today for this purpose
is UDI.

-SB


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