![]() It’s just that these days my hardware only boots and works with opensource drivers. Maybe it should be closed source operative systems who adopt opensource development metodologies not the contrary. I can’t even use ATI propietary linux drivers because ATI has decided (like in windows drivers) that my 9200 card is too old. ![]() They create more problems than they solve, they’re relevant now just because linux geeks use nvidia/ati cards. And they won’t supply drivers for vista either, so I only can use the stupid basic VGA driver with my computer And now ATI has decided that my radeon 9200 is too old, so they’ve stopped supplying new drivers for XP. For vista I can use my usb disk to supply the 3rd party drivers but XP SP2 requires a floppy – and I don’t have a floppy drive, I already live on the 90’s – so I just can’t install Windows XP SP2 except by doing a even uglier hack. Windows XP SP2 and Vista don’t support my SATA controller out-of-the box (a controller made in 2001) so installing them is a pain on the ass. I can’t use my webcam in 64-bit windows or a mac because creative either doesn’t seem to have enought money to hire programmers or they just don’t care about customers. In other words, Linux’s open source drivers/platforms supports more hardware than any other closed source operative system in the world. Linux is the operative system with more out-of-the-box devices drivers (Microsoft get all through 3rd parties and they can modifify or even recompile them when they need it – there’s a lot of devices support by 64bit linux and not supported by 64bit windows), and it’s at least the second operative system counting the number of architectures supported. I install linux in my friend’s computer and it just works most of the times. The percentage of hardware devices supported by Linux is only growing – I need to care less about what computers I buy because Linux already supports them. Thanks to opensource, and not closed drivers, now you can run linux in almost every computer out there, and Linux has only started becoming popular. ![]() Linux was born with basically no real hardware support. Why? First, let me remember that it was a closed printer driver what made Stallman start GNU (yeah, that crazy guy, even I hate him, but it was him who started it all). ![]() Unlike the days when software was a vehicle to sell hardware, and despite utopian ideals of an open source software world entirely free of patents and copyrights, today’s open source community must coexist with the closed source developers ![]()
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