alt Hacker NewsOpen source drivers are the overlooked heroes that make everything work. If linux hadn't had all these drivers written or ported to it (think of your intel NICs) the OS would be dead in the water
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SlowTao • yesterday at 2:27 AM
Bingo. They may not be as fast or feature complete but they do work.
Yeah but those times were easy. Now drivers are binary blobs and firmwares basically.