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Artem Tashkinov: Independent Hardware Vendors Hate Linux
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Originally posted by blacknova View PostConsider you've developer piece of hardware, have driver ready for all target OSs, and move you development teams to next project (it's a life after all). Your driver is closed source since you
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Originally posted by blacknova View PostDid you even notice that the only OSes that suffer from that the most are Linux kernel based?
Originally posted by blacknova View PostIs it really that necessary to break kernel API, so often?
Originally posted by blacknova View PostSomehow most operating systems manage to introduce support for new technology, buses and trinkets without changing everything in process.
Originally posted by blacknova View PostThe only reason linux became so popular is that AT&T lawsuite against 386BSD was at the same timeframe of Linux first releases. I doubt it would have gathered the same level of popularity overwise, not with the same development methods.
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Originally posted by birdie View PostLinux fanboys just cannot understand one simple thing - in most cases only the companies creating the hardware have the resources and the knowledge to maintain their hardware drivers in the kernel.
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Originally posted by birdie View Post
Not sure what you're talking about. Comments are perfectly allowed and there's already almost a dozen of them.
Edit: Disqus has technical issues at the moment. Perhaps all the websites which employ the Disqus comments are run by douche bags.
Edit 2: if you wait for a minute the comments will load and you're free to add yours.
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Originally posted by birdie View PostFind me a set of common and popular enough hardware produced in the past two years which doesn't have at least a few warnings and errors on kernel boot. Huh?
Originally posted by birdie View Postit's about fully supporting something
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Originally posted by birdie View PostYeah, I've heard this excuse a thousand times - "You wanna use Linux? Throw away your perfectly working hardware which is 100% functional and bugs free under some proprietary OS and buy something for Linux instead".
Originally posted by birdie View PostOnly a few people could actually see the light at the end of this article
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