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Originally Posted by pornopete
do you still have to write your own drivers?
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You know I've had very few driver issues in fifteen years of Linux.
Last year I bought a laptop at Wal-Mart. Before putting a real OS on it, I booted it up just to test it, with the preinstalled Windows. Everything worked fine except the wireless card. I did some digging and Windows says there is no driver installed for the card. That's odd. I go to Acer's web site and see drivers for the video card, for sound, everything but the wireless card. I Google the chipset. No Windows driver anywhere. Fuck it. I pop in a Linux install disk and when it's done installing Linux it's online. No Windows driver to be found, but Linux includes the right driver on the OS disk.
I found it to be similar with SATA and SAS target drivers. They don't seem to be available for Windows at all.
Are you still waiting for 64 bit Flash? We had it in 2008.
http://ostatic.com/blog/64-bit-flash-plugin-released-for-linux-first