Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 22, 2004 10:33 PM
Manufacturers are not trying to limit their own sales by not printing Linux compatibility on the box, they just don't want to train their support staff to field calls from Linux users. They view it as a small market segment, and the cost of supporting it as high.
There are many different distributions, each with their own kernels, with different levels of drivers installed. There is no way a tech support guy is going to walk you through compiling a new kernel with the new driver that you might need.
If there was a may to distribute kernel driver modules that would work in any Linux kernel, then you might see more manufacturers supporting Linux. Till then, look what nVidia (bless them) has to put up with.
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Re:Linux on Intel
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 22, 2004 10:33 PMThere are many different distributions, each with their own kernels, with different levels of drivers installed. There is no way a tech support guy is going to walk you through compiling a new kernel with the new driver that you might need.
If there was a may to distribute kernel driver modules that would work in any Linux kernel, then you might see more manufacturers supporting Linux. Till then, look what nVidia (bless them) has to put up with.
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