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byDarkness404 ( 1287218 ) writes:
Seriously Google how hard can it be? Just use GTK, its light, useful and even a weekend coder can use it.
byamfantasy ( 1150435 ) writes:
GTK isn't as nice as everyone makes it out to be. Basically what everyone has been doing is talking red hat, and suse and making their product work on that. You can't "standardize" Linux because the 7 or so distro can't agree.
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bybinarylarry ( 1338699 ) writes:
Riiiight, an Ubuntu user who's written many articles for the Windows-only .NET platform.
Silly Astroturfer.
byfooslacker ( 961470 ) writes:
I've got no idea about him but I've written several white papers for various platforms in my job including .NET and I use Windows daily at work and even in a VM at home sometimes. I also use Ubuntu and OS X primarily for my personal stuff. It's not an either/or religion for all of us who don't have the last name Stallman. I very much value open source products but there are things they don't do or don't do well or because of other cultural reasons such as de facto standards just are positioned properly
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byPeterBrett ( 780946 ) writes:
I mean if I am a hardware manufacturer it takes just three drivers if I want to support Windows past, present, and future with a binary driver. Four if I want to cover the niches. I just have my developers write a Win98/ME, A win2k/XP, and a Vista/Win7. I add a WinXP64/Vista64 and since Win7 can use Vista drivers I have everything from 1998-2014 completely covered with just four binary drivers and no more out of pocket. There just ain't a way to do that in Linux.
There's a much easier way. Send a message to the kernel list saying, "I am a hardware manufacturer. Here are the docs for my hardware under NDA, and here's some samples." Ta-da! You get drivers written for free (or significantly reduced), and every subsequent distro release will support your hardware by default.
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byFictionPimp ( 712802 ) writes:
Why does a windows driver written on 2003 still work in windows xp? Because windows XP has not fundamentally changed in that time. Now will that 2003 driver work in windows 7?
If you are still using Ubuntu 6.10 I bet those old drivers will still work. Some distro's even keep security patches up for 5+ years. If you want the latest and greatest, even in windows, stuff breaks.
byBlueLightning ( 442320 ) * writes:
You do realise that *loads* of drivers currently in the Linux kernel were written by developers working under NDAs from manufacturers, right?
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