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		Almondsetat 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We should have the ability to run any code we want... Open 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

bluesign 7 months ago | [–]

Yeah but those times were easy. Now drivers are binary blobs and firmwares basically.

SlowTao 7 months ago | [–]

Bingo. They may not be as fast or feature complete but they do work.

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