Strategy for fixing Bug #1

Andrew Jorgensen andrew.jorgensen at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 17:41:21 UTC 2006


On 12/28/06, Wes Morgan <cap10morgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric and Rob's point there was that whichever 64-bit desktop takes the
> crown, one of the reasons will be because it had 64-bit drivers for all the
> existing hardware out there. Linux actually has an advantage over Windows in
> this regard since we have the source code to lots of drivers, whereas MS
> does not.

That specific point really is reasonable.  My own brief experience
with Vista 64-bit (and XP 64-bit for that matter) was disappointing
partly because a lot of my hardware didn't work.




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