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Windows Drivers Under Linux?

Posted by michael on from the last-resort dept.

sniggly writes "The Inquirer has an article about how Montreal, CA based Linuxant has created a 'compatibility wrapper' allowing standard Windows NDIS 5.0 drivers to work on linux. After pointing to another project allowing windows printer drivers to work on OS/2 the author asks 'Are printer and network card drivers going to become, over time, a commodity with Win32 drivers one day the 'de-facto standard' run via wrappers?"

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  1. Heres another idea. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How about hacking GTK to use the Win32 file dialog. That way we won't have to put up with the monstrositry that it is!

  2. Re:I like to lick weiners. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't speak (proper) English, you insensitive clod!

    P.S. Can I lick your weiner?

    P.S.S. I believe the comma is supposed to go INSIDE the trailing quotation mark.