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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Everything ATi makes but the TV Tuner and Remote Wonder.
Check it out. They now work with Xorg 7.3 except the Fire Series still haven't been released for Xorg 7.2 or 7.3: Just Xorg 7.1.
The rest are on driver version: 8.42.3
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By this logic BSD doesn't lack drivers either, it just lacks *incomplete* drivers.