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> This is what developed OS'es in the real world is all about. Every
> commercial OS on the planet does things this way because that is the
> only way to guarantee reliability down the track. Alan can complain
> about the stability of Windows 9x being attributed to binary drivers,
> but the same argument does not hold true for Windows NT, OS/2,
> Solaris, Netware, QNX, BeOS, MacOS or any other commercial OS. Fact
> is they all use binary device drivers, and many of them are a lot
> more stable than Linux is.
And this is not true for solaris! Just give me ONE driver which works
with solaris 2.4 --> 8. Oh, you want to say these are different versions?
Well *I* can give you a hand full of drivers which will happily work with
a 2.2.13 linux-kernel. So, what is the point with binary drivers?
Bye, Nils
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