I've always thought that the reason WinModems aren't supported in Linux had nothing to do with the release of specs for the drivers. Rather, in order to correctly interprete the wave signals from the modem in software required that the driver execute at specific times. The only way to assure this would be to allow quality of service in the kernel. This warps the design of the kernel and has not been allowed by the kernel maintainers.
So, along comes someone trying to port their WinModem driver to Linux. How are they going to get the quality of service they need? Are they going to hack the kernel? Do you want your hardware vendor requiring you to hack your kernel in a way that the kernel maintainers themselves do not accept?
Or, is this a vaporware announcement intended to make their stockholders think that they are tapping into a market just waiting for a product.
Don't trust this announcement. I'll believe it when I see a Linux machine with a LinTel modem running.
A verification group for OSS is a large order. There are several smaller groups working on different code bases. One of the more thorough would probably be the OpenBSD group (http://www.openbsd.org/). They constantly scour their source base (originally forked off of another *BSD group) for security problems. Due to the deligent efforts of the OpenBSD group, their operating system can be quite justifiably touted as the most secure standard operating system that is somewhat widely used.
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I've always thought that the reason WinModems aren't supported in Linux had nothing to do with the release of specs for the drivers. Rather, in order to correctly interprete the wave signals from the modem in software required that the driver execute at specific times. The only way to assure this would be to allow quality of service in the kernel. This warps the design of the kernel and has not been allowed by the kernel maintainers.
So, along comes someone trying to port their WinModem driver to Linux. How are they going to get the quality of service they need? Are they going to hack the kernel? Do you want your hardware vendor requiring you to hack your kernel in a way that the kernel maintainers themselves do not accept?
Or, is this a vaporware announcement intended to make their stockholders think that they are tapping into a market just waiting for a product.
Don't trust this announcement. I'll believe it when I see a Linux machine with a LinTel modem running.
A verification group for OSS is a large order. There are several smaller groups working on different code bases. One of the more thorough would probably be the OpenBSD group (http://www.openbsd.org/). They constantly scour their source base (originally forked off of another *BSD group) for security problems. Due to the deligent efforts of the OpenBSD group, their operating system can be quite justifiably touted as the most secure standard operating system that is somewhat widely used.