From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: The best way to "support Linux"! Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 11:08:43 GMT
Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org) wrote:
:
: "bootable rootdisk" ---although I still maintain that the bus mouse IRQs and
: other hardcoded-but-likely-to-change "constants" should be settable at
: runtime.
Or by having code in the kernel to probe the system to work out this.
(with an option to do it manually)
:
: Also consider that Linux is still a rapidly evolving system. There's a
: tradeoff here: Linux tends to be the upgrade-of-the-week... but Windows
: crashes seem to be around almost forever because it *isn't* upgraded once a
: week.
The crashes are due to new bugs, rather than old ones, also it appears to be
crashing less. (as a general trend)
: All in all, things aren't *quite* as ugly as you paint them --- although I
: grant they're not as prettily prepackaged and preregurgitated as the DOS/
: Windows/NT situation. They could be, though... take a look at Unixware, for
: example. I hear some card manufacturers are including drivers for it now.
A friend of mine has the latest version of OS/2 and all extras.
His stuff crashes more often than mine!