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Simplifying Linux Driver Installation

Posted by timothy on from the please-and-how dept.

prostoalex writes "O'Reilly Network posts an update on Project Utopia that produced Hardware Abstraction Layer for Linux simplifying device changes. They also link to the Driver on Demand project on SourceForge, whose goal is to create a central database to enable Linux desktops download the drivers automatically when the user plugs in her new hardware device."

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  1. Yeah by SpooForBrains · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hardware Abstraction Layer cos we all know how well that worked in Windows NT

    --
    "The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
    1. Re:Yeah by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      It's like WinDoze and stuff.

      OR

      Its M$ KRAP that crashes ever 2.3 minutes.

      OR

      If MicroSoft and anything the do sucks... ;->

  2. Re:Neat! by mark_space2001 · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Next thing you know there won't be any reason anymore to stay with XP :)

    1. Cut and Paste don't work
    2. Games
    3. Font display is awful
    4. Aplication installation is awful, poorly integrated with desktop(s)
    5. 86 different text editors... why?
    6. Some very important web sites only work with IE
    7. General lack of polish, little (and some big) things inexplicably not working
    8. Cut and Paste don't work
    9. Font display is awful
  3. So while blasting Windows by melted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Linux community silently "borrows" more and more ideas from there. Make up your fucking mind people, this is getting disgusting.

  4. GNU/Linux finally going the NetBSD way... by spamhog · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    NetBSD has abstracted from the hardware layer for many years: it has abstract "generic drivers" and metal-specific "glue code".

    This helps not just navigate the "device" space - it also makes managing ports to altoghether different architectures easier.

    I am quite glad that something similar is cooking for Linux, although perhaps 10 years late.