Linux Desktop Summit Re: [SGVLUG] Hello from San Diego

[Dustin Laurence]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:23:38PM +0000, Terry Hancock wrote:
> 
> 4) Look for Windows/Mac support on boxes.
>     (Chances are, if it works on both Windows and Mac, it probably doesn't
>      rely on "host-based" control, and has its own MCU and firmware 
> (e.g. it
>      is not a winmodem), this became an even better indicator when Mac
>      went to the OS X Unix-based operating system)

This is a great list of tips, and this is one I never thought of.

BTW, one of the Linspire techies claims that they are getting close to
100% support for Winmodems.  He admitted to being as surprised as I was.

> surprised -- my current problems are with: an nVidia video card (closed 
> source)
> and problems with inexpensive IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives).

Everybody is having optical drive problems.  I guess it isn't just
Matti. :-)

Dustin
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