dmd platform support - poll

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Dec 30 08:39:27 PST 2008


Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Got to say, Linux's #1 drawback is lack of solid wireless support. It 
>> can get very, very unnerving. Particularly because of the 
>> chicken-and-egg thing: you install Linux and you want to get the wifi 
>> working, but you can't download the appropriate driver because you 
>> can't connect. Then the default network-manager is really crappy. My 
>> Linux experience improved considerably when I found a drop-in 
>> replacement called wicd (http://wicd.sf.net).
> 
> 
> My router burned out this morning (nice smell of ozone), and when I went 
> to the nerd store to get another, my eee pc was there on sale for $249, 
> $100 less than I paid for it. The sign on it says "last one".

IMHO people noticed 10'' is the perfect keyboard access/portability 
combination, so 9'' fell sharply out of favor.

Andrei



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