Re: Wireless; Vista; etc. (was: Installfests?)
Email sent to Toronto LUG list. CC'ed debian-laptop list because of
relevant questions about wireless.
On 6/28/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at gmail.com> wrote:
(Alas, the state of the "Linux art" does not include decent support
for wireless with WPA + certificates...)
Or decent support for certain wireless chipsets at all, it seems. :-(
Has it ever happened before that someone tried to come up with a
"Linux Certified" logo, trademark it, and convince certain Wi-Fi
vendors to put it on the outside of their packaging?
If not, someone should. (OSDL? Debian? Ubuntu? Red Hat? IBM?)
I'm fairly well certain that installing Windows would be *way* more difficult...
Yes, but perhaps that's only because of drivers. Windows XP is six
years old, and it's almost guaranteed that on a modern computer you'll
have hardware whose drivers aren't on the Windows XP CD. I have a
feeling the problem will go away for a few years again when Vista
comes out and includes drivers for everything.
On 6/28/06, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
> In other words, I would submit that utility of the installfest has
> peaked. There is still a need for it, but the need is far less than it
> used to be. At a technical level, Linux simply isn't as intimidating any
> more.
Hmm. Disagree. Linux is more complex than it ever was.
The difference is that there are distribution makers that have
diminished the sophistication of the configuration questions that they
ask.
Precisely, and bravo to those vendors for doing so.
Please CC me,
Jason
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