The Open Call

"The issue here is about drivers; while Linux has a veritable Death-Star sized metric of hardware support with drivers, of which almost all are open source, it’s that remaining percentage that has the developers bugged, as it were.

"It’s not about a philosophical standpoint, either. It’s about functionality, flexibility, and support. If not the code, then at least the specifications, allow the kernel developers to write, improve, fix, and maintain drivers for the kernel...."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Dell's Ubuntu 8.04 Offering—Technical Details(Jul 25, 2008)
• Richard's Dream and Institutionalized Mental Illness(Jul 25, 2008)
• Anatomy of Linux Loadable Kernel Modules(Jul 23, 2008)
• Man vs. Myth: Greg Kroah-Hartman and the Kernel Driver Project(Jul 22, 2008)
• The Importance of Purity on the Linux Desktop(Jul 21, 2008)