On Wednesday 15 December 2004 12:01 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Christian Convey wrote: > > > I don't think I agree. I'm talking about cases where a good driver > > exists in both Windows and Linux. My question is: given an existing > > good driver, why is there more manual work to get a device like a > > trackball useable under Linux rather than Windows? > > because when you play with windoze, you only have one kernel > > when you play with linux, you have 2**N possible kernels > where "N" is the various modules that is turned on or off No, still one kernel, different drivers. > <fuzzy crystal ball prediction> > gateway will be bought out by a big or small fish to merge > with a linux distro to keep both entities alive > </crystal ball> Probably not Gateway, but one of the struggling "discount" brands like eMachines. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.dyndns.org http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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