Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:32:25PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> advances. Pretty much all the "Live CD" distros (Knoppix, Mepis,
> Gnoppix, LNX-BBC, Damn Small Linux, etc.) automatically detect hardware
> and configure themselves to it, booting to a desktop or command prompt
> in a couple of minutes.
I think this may be "good marketing" rather than a super-true statement.
The first time I took Knoppix (the latest/greatest at the time, about a
month ago) to my brother-in-law's house, on his AMD 1800 it wouldn't even
boot (didn't detect his cdrom) and on my nephew's PC the network card didn't
work (a 3Com 3c59x, or 3c95x, some flavor like that which was less common;
even windows doesn't come with drivers on board) nor did his Sound Blaster
sound card work.
Let's not fool ourselves that Knoppix boots every PC known to man.
These weren't wierd or super-old PCs. They were just two representives
of the universe of PCs folks have.
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