Hi there again,
I said what I said about arrogance because of I read on this ml. Some people are arrogant in the way they answer some questions. Some of the questions may be somehow boring or even stupid at times, *but* in those cases it's best to ignore them and not answer...
And I repeat what I said on my other mail. I'm really sorry if I offended anyone.
As for being a "Linux Fanboy"... Wich I'm not! ;) I am a "OS fanboy". I like to learn. I like to experiment. Each OS has negative and positive points. There's no holy grail of OS's.
BTW: ROS is looking cool. It's a bit on the slow side, but it's cool! :)
Stay cool people,
--------------- Ricardo Ramalho In Reply to:
-----Original Message----- From: ros-general-bounces@reactos.com [mailto:ros-general-bounces@reactos.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Mauritz Sent: quarta-feira, 18 de Fevereiro de 2004 21:47 To: weigelt@metux.de; ros-general@reactos.com Subject: Re: [ros-general] why folks
Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2004 22:05 schrieb Enrico Weigelt:
btw: nvidia has found a moderate way of the trouble: they've written a small opensource stub driver, which loads the real binary driver and dispatches the calls to its own binary interface.
which needs to be adapted for more or less each single kernel revision. how many kernel revisions appeared over the lifetime of Win2K? does the windows version of exactly the same driver (the linux binary stub models parts of the windows registry, so it's _really_ the same one) change for each of these revisions, too?
You could also write generic driver interfaces / ABIs for many device types if you like / feel you require them. Of course this forbids many compiler optimizations and so slows down a little bit in comparison with "native" opensource drivers - but winnt has the same problem.
driver code (esp for hardware) usually is not the bottleneck - much time is spent in loops, waiting for the hardware, anyway.
ACK. We've got the same problems in the mplayer project ... seems to be a quite normal illness of coders ;-)
no, maybe these people are just tired explaining things over and over again and fighting the same battles uphill all the time.. it's easy to stand on top and laughing about those coming up to you while kicking yet another stone in their direction - even when they might be right (but you're only pretending to be interested in listening)
_that_ is why I'm getting pretty aggressive when I encounter behaviour that is similar to that of (linux) fanboys (no idea about hyperion's motives to react the way he does)
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