On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:02:05AM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2003 05:54, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 09:11:08PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > > > If you are warried about hardware support for Linux -- than try to accept > > > only OSS drivers and wait for critical mass to force the vendors. > > > but I also want my hardware to work, ... > > Than buy your hardware from companies that cooperates with us! >
When I buy new hardware I make sure its linux complient and I make sure I can replace it if it won't work after all. The problem is with older hardware I pick up from people that no longer use it (which is most of my hardware). Laptops are a special problem as well. For example my home gateway is a beige mac G3 my brother stopped using (and BTW was a bit of a hell to set up the first time but was worth it). I am still trying to get the adb wacom tablet to work though. All my graphic cards at home and two scanners are donations from friends etc. It saves me a lot of money if all those things bother to work. > Example: For a long time I heard here about trouble getting > specs and OSS software for UPS. Lately someone on this > list mentioned NUT project (http://www.exploits.org/nut/) > and in their home page there is a list of supportive > companies (not just money -- docs!). > Guess what? One of them (MGE) has a branch in Israel. > (http://www.mgeups.co.il/ look at the bottom left bar). > > I have it bookmarked for my next UPS purchace. And you'll > bet they'll know *why* I bought their product. > > > and to have some proffessional quallity software that there is no chance > > will ever hit the opensource. > > "Free software is for small utilities..." > "There's no chance they'll write a compiler" ... oops > "There's no chance they'll write an OS kernel" ... oops > "There's no chance they'll write GUI software" ... oops > "There's no chance they'll write bussiness apps." ... oops > "There's no chance they'll write a ..." > What's next? > > -- > Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron > > "Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity" > (Dennis Ritchie) > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
