On 8/5/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
be more penetrative is that Suse or Fedora or all such ones in India set up labs for testing and provide a set of drivers for every new hardware ( mobos and others) that comes into the market. They need not give it free. A small charge of Rs. 500/- for the distro and the driver set per mobo can be very attractive compared to Rs. 3700/- for XP home. The driver installation should be an automated script that simply needs to be double clicked.
I always thought that as time has gone by, driver support for GNU/Linux (barring a few troublesome manufacturers like ATI, Lexmark, etc.) has been fairly good. What kind of drivers are you talking about that should be sold on CDs?
If you're talking about driver CDs like you have for motherboards, mice, etc then that's the manufacturer's headache. Generally every distro that is released has up-to-date drivers for the latest hardware (provided they're stable). What more are you looking for?
Siddhesh