Message-Id: <200512081932.jB8JWkfN020116@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
cc: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario 
In-Reply-To: Message from Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk> 
   of "Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:58:56 BST." <1134003536.8162.4.camel@localhost> 
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:32:46 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk> wrote:

[...]

> i disagree, you make it sound like it takes weeks of effort to find out
> which stuff works on linux, and that basically you have to be lucky to
> find it at all...

> basically the only thing that doesent work (i dont count binary-only
> solutions working) is nvidia and ati.

Count several WiFi cards into it too. Perhaps very-high-end stuff.

And what doesn't work well on Linux in "normal PCs" (rock-bottom priced
stuff, mostly) doesn't work well at all, period.
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