Windows Drivers Under Linux?

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Posted by michael on Sunday October 19, 2003 @06:21AM 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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Re:fp! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 06:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Pah! Your fp FAILS IT.
OT I Know but... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 06:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I would've e-mailed /. admin, but we know where that gets us (i.e. no-where).

My point is has anybody noticed a distinct lack of moderations the past couple of days? did the mod point pool allocation get cut?
1. Re:OT I Know but... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 07:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  My point is has anybody noticed a distinct lack of moderations the past couple of days? did the mod point pool allocation get cut?
  
  Yeah, I totally noticed that! It's whack. I've only been meta-modding like 4 posts at a time as opposed to the usual 10.
  
  Oh, and if you think emailing the /. admin gets you nowhere, where the heck do you think posting an OT AC comment will get you?
Re:wow by JohnFluxx · 2003-10-19 07:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

waiting..15..16...17...18...19..20..submit
Re:As long as .. by AntiOrganic · 2003-10-19 07:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't understand the mplayer reference.
Re:I like to lick weiners. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 20:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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

Only in American non-English. It's P.P.S by the way.