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LinuxAnt's DriverLoader Loads Centrino Drivers
cRueLio writes "The latest release of Linuxant's DriverLoader can now load Centrino drivers. This is very useful, because Intel has been resisting the release of Linux Centrino drivers. For those of you who don't know, DriverLoader is practically a wrapper for Windows wireless drivers."
awesome. now linux too can have buggy drivers!
gotta wonder, did they implement the bluescreen feature?
Its a win/win for those who go along with it.
:)
I would have thought it was more a case of win/linux for those who go along with it.
Ouch. Did I actually just make a joke that lame?
People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this.
I want to know when I can use Clippy in native Linux.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Not at all. What most people don't realize is that Slashdot passed the Turing Test some time ago. All those "Anonymous Cowards" are actually generated by a self-aware AI running in the background on Google's processor array.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you DriverLoader fanatics? I've been sitting here at a cafe close to my freelance gig sipping a latte in front of a centrino Linux laptop running DriverLoader for about 4 hours now while it attempts to download a 17 kilobyte file from the internet. 4 hours. At home, on my Commodore 64 connecting to the Internet using a modem with an acoustic coupler connected using a speakerphone across the room, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this laptop, the same operation would take about 30 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Mozilla won't work. And my latte has gone cold waiting for a ssh session to negotiate. Even ed over a telnet session (unencrypted over wireless! insecure, I know, but I'm desperate) to my C64 running Lunix is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Centrino laptops running DriverLoader, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a wirelessly connected centrino laptop that has run faster than its Commodore counterpart with acoustic-coupler speakerphone wireless, despite the Centrino's faster chip architecture. My Atari 2600 with 128 bytes of ram with avian carrier RFC1149 wireless runs faster than this centrino machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the LinuxLoader is a superior piece of software.
LinuxAnt addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use DriverLoader over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Dear Intel,
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pwned.
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Sincerely,
the Linuxant team.
Bowie J. Poag