Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
No doubt part of the Wintel (intel + Microsoft) strategy to perpetually
break non-windows platforms with new incompatible
hardware like the switch over from the e1000 MT adapters to e1000 GT
which are not backward compatible with the older chipsets.
I presume you mean breaking /windows/ platforms?
As I noted, Linux often supports the hardware from the "big" hardware
vendors before Windows does.
They use Linux as a "rabbit" to push Microsoft into supporting
something, with the "Linux supports it already" argument.
Jeff
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