Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 28th Oct 2007 03:48 UTC
"I recently read this article about how the Linux device driver project needs more work to do. I pondered this for awhile, and came to a realization. While Linux still does indeed lack drivers for some hardware, I believe that the lack of drivers is no longer the largest technological obstacle to Linux adoption. The thing Linux needs to focus mostly on now is completeness, not quantity, of hardware support." Read on.
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only place i have seen issues with lack of full feature support are in the area of video card drivers, and then its about stuff like built in tv out chips and similar.
thing is, thats mostly a Xorg issue, not a kernel issue, as its Xorg that does the desktop work.
and given that in windows and osx, the programmers of the drivers have full access to the docs of the hardware (if it exists. i have seen some horror stories that even the companies themselves use reverse engineering like techniques at times because the doc and the chip dont match at all when done) and therefor dont have do bothersome trial and error.
that linux, despite this, support as much hardware as it does, is impressive imo. and buts vista in a even worse light then before.