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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."

7 of 377 comments (clear)

  1. suck it weenies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

  2. YOUR AN IDIOT TACO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE HEAD.

  3. Can I? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Could I tonight
    Wish upon a star
    Grant me first post
    And carry love home in a jar

  4. HER new hardware device? by Nicholas+Evans · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    when the user plugs in her new hardware device.

    I'm not a her, you insensetive clod!

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    1. Re:HER new hardware device? by shadwwulf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Welcome to the discrimination of the twenty first century. If you are heterosexual, caucasian, male, Judeo-Christian or even worse a combination of more than one of those you are the new target of discrimination by the liberal left.

  5. Whoops! by scapermoya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "oops, you wanted a driver for an ipod? not a printer? my bad..." Not even microsoft is stupid enough to puch drivers into your lap.

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    Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch.
  6. Re:write your own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Forging military documents now? Sounds like a certain political party is pounding the "Panic" button.

    Which party is that? Are we talking about showing up for national guard duty, pulling a woundedsoldier out of the water, or Iraq purchasing uranium from Nigeria? Which one is more important?