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[Elmer Phud]

YB -

driver side is sometimes better than Windows. Its pretty stupid, but when you install a fresh copy of Windows from CD to empty disk, it boots in 640x480 and can't print. Not with Linux. Right after install (which is as simle as Windows install), it boots in 1024x768, sound card works and printer prints - right away.

Maybe for you. I get a keyboard that has remaped my keys to something unuseable, no printer, unrecognized USB mouse, broken sound card, no recognition of USB plug ins, the list goes on and on. Linux simply isn't ready for plug and play and won't be for years.

[sgolds]

Keith, YB, Elmer, that Linux self-booting game disk goes through a hardware detection algorithm when it boots and configures (loads drivers from CD) on the fly. I do not know how complete the set of drivers is, I suspect they made an effort to support the hardware that would be common on A64 machines. Haven't heard much about it since September, though.

Elmer, are you speaking of the A64 Linux game CD? (I would be pleasently surprised to find out that you have an A64.) That distribution would not have drivers for a lot of legacy stuff, I would think, but rather be aimed at hardware likely to be put on the new platform.