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Re: Linux on the desktop - it's come a long way, but is it there yet?



 On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:02:55AM -0400, Matt Shields wrote: 
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Mark J. Dulcey <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > Tom Metro wrote: 
> > 
> >  That was a good explanation for the situation 10 years ago. Now Linux 
> >> development is heavily sponsored by large corporations like IBM, Novel, and 
> >> RedHat. So the real question is why isn't new hardware supported more 
> >> quickly by these commercial OS vendors? 
> >> 
> >> The answer is probably that there is just too much hardware to cover even 
> >> by these large companies with deep pockets. With Windows, Microsoft writes 
> >> drivers themselves only for a minority of the hardware. The vendors do the 
> >> rest. 
> >> 


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