Star The Battle for Wireless Drivers in Linux and BSD
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 21st Dec 2006 08:29 UTC, submitted by Valour
Internet & Networking BSD and Linux programmers have had a lot of success in creating drivers for new computer hardware in a timely manner, but much of their effort has been without the support of major hardware manufacturers. Intel, Marvell, Texas Instruments and Broadcom, though separate and competing entities, seem by one consent to prevent non-Microsoft operating systems from working properly with some of their most widely-used network chips.
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RE[4]: here's how i see it
by martink on Thu 21st Dec 2006 19:19 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: here's how i see it"
martink
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Would you like fries with that elitism?

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