From: Diego Iastrubni (iastrubn_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sat 22 Feb 2003 - 18:12:06 IST
בשבת 22 פברואר 2003, 17:43, Muli Ben-Yehuda כתב:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:20:03PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > you add luck. I once setup up a machine, and it did not recognize
> > the modem.
>
> Neither did this one, until I performed the correct incantations. Did
> you? it required reading the HOWTO, the TROUBLESHOOTING and some head
> scratching.
>
> > lsub showed the modem.
> >
> > linux drivers sux.
>
> Companies who don't release documentation suck. People who complain
yes, that s really a problem. But sometimes drivers have patents, and there is
not real way to release full open source. I found that problem when I used a
winmodem. I could buy a full h/w but it cost much more.
Anyway what I mean in the last post, was that the release cycles of linux
drivers, are many times too slow and contain more bugs. While in windows you
can most times have a back up driver (windows original, in case of video
cards chipset drivers or company drivers), here you have only one driver.
Many times linux drivers are bad, not compile, and just dont work, but again
this happens in windows too. I wish There were more tested binaries drivers,
at least for big distros (rh, mdk, suse etc). A thing which is not always
available. This is the fault of h/w designers, who not only do not distribute
the specs for the dh/w, not do not even distrubute a working binarie driver.
BTW: Marc,
how about Hurd? have you tested it?
How will be the status of drivers there?
- diego
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