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Novell Delivers Device Driver Breakthrough

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hopefully-the-companies-will-actually-start-writing-them dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Novell today announced a new Linux device driver process to make it easier for third party device driver writers to integrate their drivers with SUSE Linux." From the article: "The new driver process allows customers to obtain drivers independently of Novell® kernel updates and supplies a straightforward approach third parties can use when developing device drivers for Novell's SUSE® Linux Enterprise products. The new Linux driver process developed by Novell allows hardware and software vendors to provide Linux drivers and driver updates for their products to customers directly and transparently, in a way that is completely integrated with SUSE Linux Enterprise delivery and support."

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  1. No need for competition... by cloricus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Get over yourselfs Plan 9 and BSD trolls - I'm seeing more of you fall out of the wood work in /. comments and it is getting annoying...Guess what; I have games (HL2, UT2k4, Q4, EVE, etc) and XGL (transset over xcompmgr) with fully compatible nvidia binary drivers and every bit of hardware on my computer supported, nearly, all under gpl compared to your what? Firefox suport? To put it simply there is need for Plan 9 and smaller BSDs to exist and that is so they spur Linux to continue to better itself and they provide good server OSes.

    So bugger off and let people use their favourite OS in peace or don't bitch when the next major Plan 9 feature is reported and every one else just sighs and says 'use linux'.

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    I ate your fish.
  2. Re:When my copy of Windows fails... by Minwee · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    "It's too bad that microkernel's cannot help"

    That the Microkernel's what cannot help?