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USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon

Posted by michael on from the speed-kills dept.

itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now? :)"

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  1. NetBSD by The+FooMiester · · Score: 5, Interesting

    NetBSD has had NetBSD support in current for quite some time. Does that make it number 2?

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  2. Re:do you guys think by jimmy_dean · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We had AMD Hammer 64 bit processor support before Windows did.

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  3. Re:You mean Linux DOESN'T support USB 2.0? by Skapare · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OSS typically lags commercial software support, unless the hardware standards designers and hardware manufacturers work with Linux and/or Linux people right from the start. All too often, the first sample a Linux developer has to go on is bought retail the day a new product is released, and often with no hardware specs to go on. I once contacted a hardware standards group by telephone to inquire about getting a copy of the standard for development purposes. If I wasn't a member of their organization, then I'd have to pay $10,000 and sign a non-disclosure agreement. I was told membership was "very exclusive and expensive". That standard was eventually released when products came out. That was the I2O standard.

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  4. works fine for me, too by g4dget · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been using it with 2.4.18, and it's been working just fine (I have a USB 2.0 disk). The interface cards are cheap and the throughput is great. And it seems to be a simple extension of USB 1.0, so drivers like USB storage just seem to work. (Firewire, of course, works as well.)

  5. Re:Linux being mentioned on MSNBC by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Gates' own operating system design was to be UNIX-based. However, he has long since stopped coding and started managing.

    You should look less at MSNBC's article as a support of open-source, or a secret desire to support Linux, then as a desire to become a serious news source.

    Microsoft has been trying for years to show that they are serious about the things they decide to pursue.

    Messengers, game consoles, ISP. All these things are places Microsoft didn't have to go and people didn't expect from a software company. Microsoft is just trying to get away from people thinking "Windows" when they think of Microsoft, and nothing else.

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