On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:12:54 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> It's still not [yet] as easy to use.

Wrong.

> Most hardware companies don't supply drivers for it, and refuse to hand
> over the information required for anybody else to write those drivers.

Wrong; this used to be the case, but not any more.

> If you're into gaming, forget it. Almost no big developers target that
> platform.

Hmmm, Unreal Tournament III runs on it natively, and Cedega does a very 
nice job for non-Linux games.  Again, maybe 5 years ago this was the 
case, but these days there are plenty of game developers writing to 
Linux.  It's not on par with Windows, true.  But it's improved greatly.

Jim

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