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  From: Chris Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org>
  To  : Jason Tan <jason@rebel.rebel.net.au>
  Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:07:31 -0700

Re: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:16:47AM +0930, Jason Tan wrote:
> > It is becomming apparent that Linux is getting better support and over time, even the
> > 'niche' software may be seduced by the call of X.
>
> You can go to a reaosnably cluely hardware supplier(but not a specialist
> linux supplier) right now and say I want a doodad widget for my pc, and
> chances are even if you linux distribution supports it, you will ahve to
> go off and downlaod a later versionof the source to gtet the most out of
> it.

Every now and then you get a bit surprised.  A couple of months back a
friend bought a USB thing (IIRC an ethernet device) with the
expectation of having a bit of fun writing a Linux driver for it.
Nothing on the box indicated that it might be supported under Linux.

When he got home and opened up the box he found a Turbolinux disk in
it with a driver for Linux :-)

Chris.
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