Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:51:57 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Linux Incompatibility List |
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> > > >Ideas/comments/suggestions are welcome at this stage. > > > > > > Sounds interesting; is there a vendor blacklist (i.e. vendors that are > > > either hostile toward or simply don't care about Linux and their products > > > just won't ever work with Linux?) > > > > Broadcom's wireless chips come to mind... > > Nvidia. AFAIK all nvidia Linux drivers are either binary-only or > reverse-engineered.
True, however, their video cards *DO* work on linux (even though it is binary-only). I have a laptop that has the chip. Does any broadcom wireless chip work on linux (ndis wrapper or that piece of junk from linuxant doesn't count)
> To add insult to injury they have a stupid 20+page 'Nvidia Linux > Advantage' whitepaper on their site that conveniently fails to mention > the above. They probably spent more money for some marketroid to put > that together than they ever spent on actually supporting Linux.
Haven't seen that myself.
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