Re: Ubuntu 7.10 on Virtual PC 2007?

[Stephan Rose]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:01:50 -0800, NoStop wrote:

> dennis@home wrote:
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>> "PeterKöhlmann" <peter.koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote in message
>> news:fpk350$ib4$02$1@news.t-online.com...
>>> dennis@home wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> "PeterKöhlmann" <peter.koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote in message
>>>> news:fpjkcs$hn0$02$1@news.t-online.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Why do you think that people in a ubuntu group would run a stable OS
>>>>> on a
>>>>> unstable Host?
>>>>> Running windows as a guest system in a VM on a linux host makes much
>>>>> more
>>>>> sense than the other way around
>>>>
>>>> Especially when you don't have linux drivers for some of the
>>>> hardware. Do you always jump in and tell people they are wrong
>>>> without thinking first? It appears that you do.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Strange. I have linux drivers for *all* the hardware in my different
>>> computers.
>>> Face it: The driver situation for Vista is worse than for linux, and
>>> for 64bit Vista it is completely shitty.
>>
>> Don't start another stupid thread.. You may have all the drivers for
>> your hardware.. many don't and I can give you a list if you feel like
>> doing something useful and writing a couple. The most useful to me
>> would be a a driver for my Kodak Advantix filmdrive APS scanner.
>>
> Phone Kodak you Wintard.
>
>

Here is Kodak's answer:

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/products/ekn004608.jhtml?pq-
path=4497/4532

I do wonder how well it works under Vista....seeing how any google
references to drivers for that device date back to Win98 drivers.

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[DS]

>> Phone Kodak you Wintard.
>>
> Here is Kodak's answer:
>
> http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/products/ekn004608.jhtml?pq-
> path=4497/4532
>
> I do wonder how well it works under Vista....seeing how any google
> references to drivers for that device date back to Win98 drivers.

Yep, Linux sucks because they can't find a driver for my 8 year old
scanner.

But if a you've got a 2 year old piece of HW that doesn't have Vista
drivers, it the 3rd party's problem.