Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 4/29/06, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-28-04 at 21:23 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>
>  Don Dwiggins wrote: > - Printing: I have an HP Officejet T45;
> Please contact HP and tell them to support Linux.
> That's a naive response.
>
> The issue, you see, is "which distribution?"
>


If you supply the source, the linux community will handle the rest.

Quite simple.


  The sheer bewildering variety of kernel, libc, gcc, etc. versions out
> there makes it basically impossible to make a driver that works with more
> than a handful of distros at a time.  Back then it was even worse -- each
> distro was basically unique.  Nowadays you have more distro families, so you
> could pick a family and support it and get reasonable coverage.  But even
> there it's not worth the effort.  For a very small minority of end-users you
> have a very large expansion of headache and development cost.
>
> I see now from the company's web page that they support Linux.  In a way
> that would be off-putting to Linux developers.  You basically have to tell
> them which platform and version you want to use and if they don't already
> support it you pay their development costs to produce a version for that
> platform.  http://www.pikatechnologies.com/products/linux.htm
>
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Regards,
Russ
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