On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:09:09PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:00 pm, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > many people on this list and and may gnu/linux people in general wish > > for HW vendors to show some kind of 'yes, this work with $OS_FLAVOR' > > on par with the 'we recommend XP' or 'works with XP'. If it DOES > > work, great. But only a few folks like penguin computing, lindows, > > LinuxCertified, etc. and a few HW vendors like ORINOCO > > (agere,lucent,...) actually say in on the box and even fewer will > > attempt any kind of support. How do these limited folks do it? Is it > > the possbile LEGAL issues alone, the money for testing, the myriad of > > $OS? the myraid of $VERSIONS? > > Whats you take? > > > > Happy $HOLIDAYS, > > -Kev > > In the case of my Sony laptop, Sony only supports Windows XP. That means > drivers are only available for XP. Sony support does not have to answer > any questions not releated to the software that came with the laptop, > XP. I had to go to each chip makers web site and dl drivers , optomized > for some other card/laptop in order to use it for other versions of > Windows on my Sony. All not supported by Sony. BTW, Debian just > worked :) > > Its probably 'all about the money'
Debian also worked for me on sony (The modem takes a bit of works but all the rest was supported) although the customer support can't even answer questions related to XP properly (in fact I haven't managed to get a proper answer from them even to the question of where I can complain about the fact that they aren't able to provide a single proper answer or the fact that their repair shop doesn't seem to know what they are doing). > - -- > Greg Madden > Debian GNU/Linux > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/5nx+k7rtxKWZzGsRAsG5AJ9ZpDooOY7BV2Le1GtMKgpiyHVBLwCdGxIk > 1CpzdYpNCEkNtEFojhumNY8= > =7Q0j > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
