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- From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
- Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.193151.26868@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <93010991@drktowr.chi.il.us> <930109484@ritz.mordor.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:31:51 GMT
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- In article <930109484@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
- >Louis Giliberto (magus@drktowr.chi.il.us) wrote:
- >OS/2> 1) Graphics support
- >OS/2>
- >OS/2> Harry, Udo, etc have this done with the bitmapped driver. MGR has been
- >OS/2> ported from the linux port, and Harry rewrote the library to emulate
- >OS/2> the Linux library using his driver. I read his driver. It's small
- >OS/2> and elegant and works fine. Drivers wouldn't be able to be "filched"
- >OS/2> anyhow for the most part.
- >
- >Not to take anything away from the efforts of Harry and Udo, but you cannot
- >make use of this driver (for now) unless you purchase the device driver kit.
- >Having "spoken" to Harry, it sounds like a really nifty thing to have though.
- >Unfortunately, the vast majority of us don't have the DDK so we're stuck.
- >
-
- I think that this encompasses why I like Linux over Coherent. People
- like myself (and aparently like Harry and Udo, although I have never
- heard of them) like hacking around at the kernel or near kernel
- level. While I think that it is great that all this neat sorftware is
- being ported to Coherent, I am sure glad I don't have to depend on MWC
- for device driver kits, or memory manager upgrades, etc, etc, etc.
-
- - Rob
-