[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

[Johnathon Tinsley]

Gordon wrote:
> Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> 
>> -Then you'll have to find those drivers for your hardware (if they 
>> exist) and install them,
> 
> Actually not so in my experience. MS seems to have tsken a leaf out of
> Ubuntu's book. The only driver that did NOT come with Windows 7 for my 2
> y/o Toshiba Satellite was my printer....everything else just....worked!
> 

Er.. I had it a bit worse. Couldn't get online wirelessly, but when I
linked the machine to the wired net, it downloaded drivers for my wifi
and sound card. Ubuntu is ahead in drivers out-of-the-box, shame about
my audio card not working fully in Ubuntu