Re: UBUNTU 6.06 dvd version

de John Jay Smith 06/12/2006 08:00

if more people use ilinux, then drivers will be made for it....or at least
the vendors will open
the driver source code so the open source community can make them
themselves.

hardware sellers just want to sell, and if they see a market in linux users
they will do it... its simple...

"Mark Carter" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:448daa38$0$15787$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
> John Jay Smith wrote:
>
>> They are getting there, and vista is getting worse.... I see more and
>> more people moving towards linux in the future...
>
> I bought a webcam recently - and I gave up on trying to find something
> that was guaranteed to be Linux-compatable. I installed Xubuntu a short
> while later, only to discover that it listed its webcam support (although
> how real that support is another matter).
>
> It would be nice to see a lot of cooperation between hardware
> manufacturers and something like Ubuntu. Realistically, I think it will
> take more mass before manufacturers come to the conclusion that there's
> money to be made from Linux-compatable hardware. Let's just hope it's not
> too much more mass.