[mythtv-users] AppleTV with Linux

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> On Feb 8, 2008 12:26 PM,  <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>> So yes there will be "PC" drivers. They will be targeted for a
>> particualar "PC" OS. However, the fact that they are generic is
>> VERY relevant.
>
> Exactly.  They're targeted for a particular OS.  So they're NOT "PC"
> drivers.  And they're NOT generic.  Calling different distributed
> flavors of Linux "generic" doesn't apply either.  You wouldn't expect
> drivers from a PPC Mac to work in Yellowdog Linux or some other PPC
> unix build, even though it's the same hardware, and vice versa.  You
> don't call them "generic RISC drivers" or "generic PPC drivers".  The
> fact that current Apple computers are x86-based doesn't automatically
> make Linux-based drivers better than the ones supplied by the
> manufacturer.

Apple is NOT the manufacturer.

They are a systems integrator, just like Dell.

[deletia]

That doesn't make Linux drivers "necessarily better". It merely
undermines the idea that Apple drivers are "necessarily better".