Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS 272
Linux Blog recommends an interview up on the O'Reilly site with Greg Kroah-Hartman, long-time Linux kernel hacker and the current Linux kernel maintainer for the USB driver core. He updates the free Linux driver program announced almost two years ago, which has really caught traction now with more than 300 developers volunteering. The interviewer begins by asking about Kroah-Hartman's claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has. "[One factor is] the ease of writing drivers; Linux drivers are at normally one-third smaller than Windows drivers or other operating system drivers. We have all the examples there, so it's trivial to write a new one if you have new hardware, usually because you can copy the code and go. We maintain them... forever, so the old ones don't disappear and we run on every single processor out there. I mean Linux is 80% of the world's top 500 super computers right now and we're also the number one embedded operating system today. We've got both sides of the market because it's — yeah it's pretty amazing. I don't know why, but we're doing something right."
God, you're good! (Score:5, Funny)
Linux is on more devices than any other OS... (Score:2, Funny)
More devices but... (Score:3, Funny)
My Swedish vibrator still doesn't have Linux drivers [everything2.com]
Re:More devices but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:God, you're good! (Score:5, Funny)
# lslimo > output.txt
and post the output.txt file.
Re:No surprise here... (Score:2, Funny)
On the other hand, bastardized English they are.
Re:God, you're good! (Score:5, Funny)
I could, but no guarantees it wouldn't crash.
Re:God, you're good! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:About as original as celebrity baby names (Score:4, Funny)
You look lost - don't be afraid to ask for directions. I think the patent story is two blocks that way...
Re:God, you're good! (Score:5, Funny)
output.txt:
00:00.0 12v Battery
00:01.0 Chassis
00:1a.0 Engine
00:1a.1 Gear box
00:1a.2 Cam belt
00:1a.7 Drive shaft
00:1b.0 Stereo
00:1c.0 Steering wheel
00:1c.4 Steering column
00:1c.5 Horn
00:1d.0 Driver seat
00:1d.1 Front passenger seat
00:1d.2 Hot tub
00:1d.7 Back passenger seats
00:1e.0 Wheels
00:1f.0 Doors
Re:God, you're good! (Score:5, Funny)
You will obviously have to use manufacturers non-free driver, as they haven't released the spec for a Hot tub device. The latest patch I have in git fills the tub (although there are some overflowing issues with the latest, compact tubs) but doesn't heat the water yet.
Re:Linux is on more devices than any other OS... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:God, you're good! (Score:2, Funny)
What does this have to do with the man's limo driver!?
Re:No surprise here... (Score:4, Funny)
jav1231:
the guy in #linuxhelp tells me, "Dude, I dunno...mine works!"
... srw:
Hmmm... I've been using the b43 driver since Ubuntu 8.04 came out. It works here.
Re:God, you're good! (Score:4, Funny)
run
# lslimo > output.txt
You mean
# roblimo > output.txt
Re:No surprise here... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:God, you're good! (Score:4, Funny)
Well, apparently Natalie Portman submitted a patch for the Hot tub to handle grits.
Re:God, you're good! (Score:1, Funny)
You forgot Windows. ...oh wait.