On Dec 4, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Arie van Schutterhoef wrote:
they installed Ubuntu.They were getting very frustrated with this
idea that >they should have to spend weeks figuring out how to get things working that >worked fine on Windows.-I spend this summer trying to get Ubuntu work on an iMac and was
rather astonished by the discovery that it had trouble with something simple like video-card (ATI) drivers. In the end I gave up... I've got
more om my mind than figuring out these kind of things. As long these
elementary problems aren't addressed, Linux won't make onto the desktop. As an OS it
might be suited for servers, but that's where it will probably stay.
That one is a tough one. Its not for lack of people trying.
Companies like ATI and NVidia refuse to release the docs to the
developers, so they have to reverse engineer things.
.hc
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.