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Simplifying Linux Driver Installation
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."
Simply write your own.. Isnt that the point of linux... Its the answer ever newbie gets when asking about drivers
As if PnP on Windows was not trouble enough, now the following dialog box has been reported seen on select linux systems around the world:
"Driver Compilation Wizard"
"Drivers for USB device 43CD/1132 loaded, but can not be compiled. Please install glibc-2.2.3 before proceding"
*throws 'puter out window*
*buys a used iMac off ebay*
they were of course speaking of the new microsoft USB vibrator.generally hers but hey who am i to judge?
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
nuff said!
stop wasting your time with linux peoples... windows is stable and secure (XP SP2), with 100x as much functionability than linux and it plays computer games.
Linux won't make it to the desktop. Ever.
Until MS comes up with The Next Great Idea the the open source community can't/won't plagarise that is.
Don't get me wrong - I am somewhat of a Linux fanboy - but I find it ironic that everyone bashes MS while at the same time blatantly rips off their concepts.... GNOME, KDevelop, Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Oh I know: now start with the purile Xerox and Apple stories and oblique references to blowfish.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Your short-sighted response shows that you're just a MS zealot who can't stand criticism.