Cimmo wrote: > In my opinion this bug is also a Linux failure. This is because there > are THOUSAND of different distributions, kernels, patched kernels, > libraries ecc. > > I know this is an advantage for someone, but for companies that have > to write drivers and have: - different version of libs in different > distros - different directory for libs - different way to install > something - different kernel > > how can we ask to produce a driver for all these stuff? We have to > make ONE or TWO big distros and ask for support for those two, it's > the only way that can save Linux and put up market share! Writing > drivers, software and testing all this stuff in a so heterogeneous > environment cost too much!
they'll publish the specs, the community will do the rest... there usually is at least one person who knows how to write code *and* who uses one particular piece of hardware. not that hard for a company to publish information about their own hardware, is it? ;) or better yet, release the source code of the drivers: we'll compile the distro-specific binaries if necessary (when the source code of a driver is released under the GPL, afaik it is included into a later release of the kernel unless it's some poor coding). -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
