Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 3D video card recommendations | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:31:36 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 16:20 +0100, Toon van der Pas wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:42:51AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > 5) The vendor goes out of business and thus stops updating the driver > > > > MS folks would have the same problem. > > ...which proves the point Arjan is making. > > For one, I have an ISDN-adapter which doesn't work with any version of > MS-Windows from this millennium (no drivers available), while it's still > working great on current Linux kernels.
well despite your post; the Windows people are a lot better at keeping old drivers working (win 9x to a NT based kernel was obviously a huge change though). In linux you can use an old driver maybe for 6 months if you're lucky.. in windows 6 years is no exception. So the problem is a lot bigger in linux for the owner of such a card than it is in windows.
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