Okay, two interesting rumors for the hamster wheels to churn on:
1) Vista requires all drivers to be authenticated by Microsoft, essentially breaking all the beautiful hardware support that has been developed on the windows platform over the years. Is anyone running Vista with older, more esoteric hardware? Is this true?
2) Dell has been releasing computers with the option of Ubuntu instead of windows. One side effect, in my opinion, has been better hardware support for my dell, even though it's an older model. Two words: winmodem driver. Even without the Dell investment, these people have been making huge strides in hardware support. Over the two years that I've been running Ubuntu, they keep adding support and making things more seamless. What's driving this acceleration in development? It seems like most of the distros are finally coming into their own as full fledged operating systems with out of the box functionality.
1) Vista requires all drivers to be authenticated by Microsoft, essentially breaking all the beautiful hardware support that has been developed on the windows platform over the years. Is anyone running Vista with older, more esoteric hardware? Is this true?
2) Dell has been releasing computers with the option of Ubuntu instead of windows. One side effect, in my opinion, has been better hardware support for my dell, even though it's an older model. Two words: winmodem driver. Even without the Dell investment, these people have been making huge strides in hardware support. Over the two years that I've been running Ubuntu, they keep adding support and making things more seamless. What's driving this acceleration in development? It seems like most of the distros are finally coming into their own as full fledged operating systems with out of the box functionality.
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Re: Vista and Ubuntu
Mon, November 26, 2007 - 11:04 AMI have vista on 3 machines. I haven't had a driver problem yet. If it's not digitally signed it just pops up with a warning during the install saying do you really want to use this, blah blah.. But it will let you use it. So i would safely say thats an untrue statement. -
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Re: Vista and Ubuntu
Tue, December 4, 2007 - 10:58 AMThats intersting, I have had two machines running Vista outright refuse to allow me to install drivers for hardware because they were not specifically made for Vista.
Windows 2k and Xp could share drivers. Xp and Server2k3 can share drivers. A driver made for XP only will not install on Vista. A driver made for Vista/Xp machines but not signed gives you a warning but will install. Drivers signed will still give you, do you want to do this message.
Even with the UAC turned off, 2k/XP drivers wont install on Vista.
I have an older scanner from HP and while it works great on XP, there is no driver support for it under vista and since its more than 3 years old, they will not be releasing any. I have it hooked up to my linux box now for scanning and just share it over the network.
So yes, driver issues still abound.
I have also found some modem drivers written for XP that will not install under Vista.
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Re: Vista and Ubuntu
Tue, November 27, 2007 - 5:54 PMIt just takes a while for folks to catch on to Linux. Some manufacturers are releasing info to the open source community so their hardware works in Linux.
In my opinion, Vista has been the best thing to happen in the Linux world for a while; what a turd. I saw it for about five minutes, and that was four too many for me.
I bought an Ubuntu Dell last month, by the way. Desktop effects don't work, and I wasn't able to throw my old hard drive in (it's IDE and the new box has only sata ports) but other than that it's awesome. Runs just as well as every other Linux box I've had, except no dorking around with hardware before sitting down to really use it -
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Re: Vista and Ubuntu
Mon, December 3, 2007 - 4:41 PMwhich version of ubuntu is it running? 7.10? 7.04?
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