Listing of Vista Drivers

RadarSync writes to plug their page of links to Vista drivers. Listed are many drivers that Microsoft doesn't have and that aren't easily found on the manufacturer's sites. For Intel alone, 364 drivers are currently linked.

Comments

Re:Good news for competition

[JPMaximilian]

This is good news for Linux and OS X. Installing Drivers is so 1998.

Yes, because no one ever has trouble getting a wifi card to work under Linux. Or printer drivers working under OSX. In fact, surprising though it may be to you, getting drivers to work is often one of the biggest difficulties of installing Linux.
Your dripping sarcasm is tiresome, however you make a point. I do know how difficult it can be to get a wireless card to work. However, the point is, many distros, such as Ubuntu, require 0 drivers to install (depending on your hardware). On my desktop the only drivers I would have had to install were video drivers if I wanted 3d acceleration. My point is, if Vista is more difficult to setup than Linux (certainly it's more difficult than OS X), there is a greater chance of end users trying out the alternatives.

Re:Good news for competition

[wfWebber]

No no, you got that mixed up. Most the drivers you see in Linux are from 1998. But no worries mate, they'll catch up soon enough!

This Vista Driver Site runs on Linux/Apache :)

[Freshly Exhumed]

According to Netcraft the RadarSync site runs on Apache/2.0.40 Red Hat Linux:

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.radarsync.com

Driver?

[iliketrash]

As a Macintosh user, I have to ask, what's a driver?

Re:Get off your high-horses

[Hucko]

no master dojo expert here... I'm teaching myself xhtml. I don't have any issues for hardware that has linux drivers written for it (video cards) and most of the hardware worked out of the box despite the lack of specific drivers. No problem upgrading to the latest verison kernel. Linux runs on more configurations than Vista will ever hope to. There will be more machines that will have Vista on it, but linux will be capable (as always) of running on it.

Every major release since 2004 of suse, ubuntu, mandrake, and knoppix have all run out of the cd with my machines (3) so far. I too have had to upgrade my nvidia drivers to have reasonably a good display, but I've had to do that with XP and Vista too. Vista also couldn't use either of my network cards, printer and scanner didn't work but drivers were available for download. Not so for the network cards. The difference? I can't see any logical reason to pay a company for software to not work with my computer, restricting my ability to use my computer as I wish.

My brother bought a Dell and has had no end of trouble. This on hardware "designed" for Vista. Don't be a mug, don't pay for beta.

The only difference being that with Vista the situation WILL improve over time, not sure the same can be said for the next version of UBER-GIJoe Linux or whatever the current popular flavour is are you?

Yes. I am sure the next version of n linux will improve over time. Hence my testimonial. I believe in open source philosophy, be that in linux/bsd/plan9/solaris/etc. I believe variety makes a better world than monopoly. I will learn/preach/teach open source until I am persuaded of a better path. More than likely I won't pay more than $70 for it.