Clean is loosing portability in favour of Windows :(

Siegfried Gonzi siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at
Wed, 31 May 2000 09:07:58 +0200


Antonio Eduardo Costa Pereira wrote:

> I did not follow the story to its
> completion, but I am afraid that the historian switched to Windows.
> By the way,  I also have a scanner Genius Color Page I and a LED
> Okidata printer that I would like to install in my Linux Slackware
> system (yes, I do use Linux). Any hints?

My hint is to buy an Apple Macintosh. I for private use Macintoshes only. I
have a 4 year old Performa and a few weeks ago I bought a second-hand
Powerbook.

The Macintosh is the platform for people who like to be "creative". The
starting costs of the Mac are a little bit higher, but a Mac has a much longer
life-time.

Okay, that is a fact that Linux (and especially Mac OS) does not support every
device driver. But could it be possible that the fault lies at the hardware
makers? I think, they are responsible for device drivers?


Regards,
Siegfried Gonzi