Device drivers (Was: [Desktop_architects] wine?)

Timothy D. Witham wookie at osdl.org
Wed Nov 9 13:18:24 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:01 -0800, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> >On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:18 -0800, John Cherry wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:07 -0600, Robert Williamson wrote:
> >> > Was there any consideration given to inviting someone to represent
> the
> >wine
> >> > Windows emulator (http://www.winehq.com/)...or is this beyond the
> scope
> >of
> >> > this meeting.
> >>
> >> Since the ability to run Windows applications is one of the biggest
> >> inhibitors to Linux desktop acceptance, wine would be a great
> addition
> >> to the Desktop Tools Session.
> >
> >The second biggest problem is the lack of device drivers.  Will anyone
> >at the meeting be representing this problem?
> 
> I think it's a good topic but something that should be considered
> relative to a specific device class. With the current agenda the current
> status wrt graphics drivers and printer drivers would be interesting to
> look at.
> 
    This is a good place to start - one of the things that I think should
be done is rather than have all the different types of device driver
maintainers try to agree lets get one example that makes people
happy (developers, end users, IHV's, distributions in that order)
and then if it really works replicate it forward.  Since we have
X and printing folks already here it is a good place to start.


> Given the audience the question would be "What technical steps can an
> OSS project take to facilitate device driver availability?".
> 
> The other (bigger) part of the device driver problem seems to me more of
> a marketing issue and a matter of getting (more) IHV interested in
> Linux. I don't think this meeting is the right place to discuss that,
> but maybe OSDL can dedicate an other meeting to this very topic.
> 
   There are many issues and it is far from a marketing problem.

   But I guess I'm not trainable on this as I agree that more discussion
on this would be good.

Tim

> Cheers,
> Waldo
> 
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