> I dont understand this statement...
> You are communicating well with the most helpful bunch and knowledgeable group of
> Linux people as proved by this e-mail....what partial vacuum does that leave
> behind?
To take advantage of this reservoir of assistance, the extent of which has certainly
been publicly recognized, I would have to be able to say more than that Linux will
not recognize the network card (known to work flawlessly elsewhere) installed in this
particular machine. This very same version of Linux recognizes the same type of card
in another machine; this very card which has become invisible in this machine works
perfectly in another one; the recommended settings to use in the event of autoprobing
failure do absolutely nothing; and this computer is otherwise fully functional. How
is one to distill from this set of facts a basis for curing the problem?
Also, the general consensus in this list is that Linux is always better than NT, yet
our experience has been just the opposite. Which are we to credit? Our own
experience, which is limited in extent but very real to us, or the anecdotal
experiences of others, far greater in extent but coloured by possible bias, and
sometimes hysterical anti-NT bias?
Also, we are not experimenters or hackers. We use OSes for doing real-world work. If
we purchase hardware or software and hear the vendor say quite explicitly that we are
on our own with Linux, what kind of justification can we offer ourselves or our
customers for the use of something this unsupported. Trust me, when the hardware
vendor says he won't stand behind the use of Linux, we take that VERY seriously.
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David Fisher
Chief Engineer
Fisher Research Corporation
Rochester, New York
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