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From: Dr. Who
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 00:00

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Brian Mueller (mulder78@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Mark Lehrer wrote:

: >If we don't get support of new hardware, it will be more and more
: >difficult to find a Linux-compatible computer.  One of the reasons I
: >used Linux in the first place is because it had support for all of my
: >hardware.

: I agree. What we need is support for plug and play. You will probably
: say Plug and Play sucks, but it works fine on my win 95 installation.

See, this is exactly what I"m talking about.  WHY do we need plug and pray
support?  It just increases the size of the kernel.  It's helping along
those companies that are manufacturing "non-standard" or "incompatible"
hardware.  Basically, you're helping MS if you buy plug and pray crap.
Besides, plug and pray is not known for its quality...

--
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From: mind@ripco.com (Dr. Who)
Subject: Re: Suggestions please - Office for Linux
Date: 1997/08/18
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