On 4/29/06, Michael T. Richter <<a href="mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com">ttmrichter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="direction: ltr;"> On Fri, 2006-28-04 at 21:23 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: <blockquote type="CITE"> <pre></pre></blockquote></div><div style="direction: ltr;"> Don Dwiggins wrote: > - Printing: I have an HP Officejet T45; </div><div style="direction: ltr;">Please contact HP and tell them to support Linux. That's a naive response. The issue, you see, is "which distribution?"</div></blockquote><div> If you supply the source, the linux community will handle the rest. Quite simple. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"> 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. <a href="http://www.pikatechnologies.com/products/linux.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.pikatechnologies.com/products/linux.htm </a> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td> -- Michael T. Richter Email: <a href="mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ttmrichter@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:mtr1966@hotpop.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> mtr1966@hotpop.com</a> MSN: <a href="mailto:ttmrichter@hotmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ttmrichter@hotmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:mtr1966@hotmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> mtr1966@hotmail.com</a>; YIM: michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber: <a href="mailto:mtr1966@jabber.cn" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mtr1966@jabber.cn</a> "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." --Abraham Lincoln </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEUsxRLqyWkKVQ54QRAlVaAJ4qRsEQ8vqS/zmNOOlO1ewVIX8CCwCgqhk/ V3y+lMrSlrF7/SAP6Ow/ISI= =k+tS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards, Russ