3 full time people, plus the help of online pages in the internet, and
lots of hours going around forums and chats. and in the end the bulb
still doesn't work because it can't compile, or one of the libraries is
too old/too new, or the software is allergic to the hardware, or
something else that no one can explain.that's where you miss the most important point, the goal of linux is to explain how it works or why it doesn't, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work... ouch, too deep, ok
? it doesn't matter if a program doesn't work? yep, tooooo deep, right.
then I have the perfect linux system - just installed ubuntu 10.04 two
days ago, and at this release the trackpoint in my thinkpad r51 still
doesn't work out of the box.