Adieu, Fedora

Michael Ekstrand michael at elehack.net
Tue Jun 14 21:18:49 UTC 2011


On 06/14/2011 03:58 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:06:30 -0400
> Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> 
>> The problem is that Linux is often at the mercy of the hardware 
>> manufacturers, who prioritize their development efforts on Windows
> 
> I have never understood why no one ever built a binary compatible
> windows driver environment for linux. Then you just run the dadgum
> windows drivers and be done with it :-).

ndiswrapper does exactly that for wireless drivers.  On a couple of my
previous laptops it was the only way to get reliable wireless.

- Michael



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