Update On Free Linux Driver Development

Remember the offer Greg Kroah-Hartman made earlier this year, to get Linux drivers written for free for any company that wanted them? Now an anonymous reader points us to an article up on linuxworld with an update to this program. Greg K-H, who leads the development of several kernel subsystems including USB and PCI, admits that the January offer was a bit of "marketing hype" — but says it has brought companies and developers together anyway. Twelve companies have said "yes please," one driver is already in the kernel, and five more are in the pipeline.

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Re:patents, usability

[evilviper]

you print, and you forget that CUPS exists. Where's the hangup?

Was your USB printer plugged-in and powered-up when you started your system? No? Oh well. No printing for you, then. Reboot to print, or work out your own hack for CUPS, or manually get in there fix it every time you run into this stupid problem.

CUPS is the worst kind of software, IMHO. The kind that is just smart enough to second-guess what you've told it, and do bad things, but still not smart enough to be able to handle basic issues on it's own, and requires human intervention anytime something changes.