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SubjectRe: Free Linux Driver Development!

On Jan 30 2007 21:23, Diego Calleja wrote:
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>Sure, Linux doesn't support vax and the like, but it does support lots of
>architectures that matter. In http://netbsd.org/Ports/#ports-by-cpu
>there's a more Linux-like view of the architectures supported. Although
>Netbsd people will argue that porting a architecture to Linux is more
>difficult and that Linux gets support just because there's a lot of $$$
>around it.

A real one time argument. There's much more $ around Windows and yet,
there are (I presume) almost only drivers for x86 (and slowly coming,
x86_64). IA64? Well, you probably don't run desktop peripherals there,
but vendors don't have a driver at hand easily.



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