From: Micha Feigin (michf_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Mon 17 Nov 2003 - 15:29:58 IST
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?
>
> --
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>
> "Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity"
> (Dennis Ritchie)
>
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