__/ [ ed ] on Tuesday 22 May 2007 22:28 \__
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 22:58:48 +0200
> Richard Rasker <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In my eyes, this is an example of the progress Linux makes. No, not
>> everything works as smoothly as this yet - and if the camera isn't
>> recognized or supported, the user must fall back on an SD card reader
>> or the likes - but it's very encouraging all the same. And I get ever
>> more enthusiastic responses from my users about stuff "simply
>> working" without the need to install or even configure anything, such
>> as new printers, MP3 players, digital video cameras, and ripping and
>> encoding of CD's, to name just a few things.
>
> but does xp recognise the camera without the driver cd?
The initial transition to Linux sometimes involves coping with hardware that
is Linux-hostile. But it's a one-timem thing and the amount of hardware that
has no Linux drivers is getting smaller each day.
> does xp recognise a scanner without the driver cd for that matter? what
> about the lowly network card?
>
> it's so shocking for people, yet so blindingly obvious at the same
> time. the number of computers at our place is pretty high, and time
> after time they might end up in the server room for lack of space else
> where, but they're all useless for the sales people as no one keeps the
> driver cds, and most of the motherboard IO chips are not supported on
> XP... for that matter, i don't know who else keeps the driver cds for
> boxes 2,3 or 4 years old... i just phone a friend and get a 1u empty
> rack case and put the mobo/hdds/ram inside and we have a nice gnu
> linux/bsd box for the rack :-D
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