Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > I am confusing nothing. I full well know the difference > between a kernel and distro. All your sidetracking is > just an attempt to further your FUD against anything > not DOS. Oh, but it was not an attempt to spread FUD, rather the opposite: An attempt to demonstrate how the necessity to use something can alter our view of it. To get back to the plot, I like the Promise controller because it works without the need for additional drivers - in DOS. And all of the problems mentioned on this list with the Promise controller in both Windows and Linux were due to the fact that those OSes did not work with it without additional drivers. But as this example shows, people who are using Windows do not say "Windows is crap because it does not work with my Promise controller", they rather say "That Promise controller is crap because it does not work with Windows". So they view the same piece of hardware differently because they use different OSes. I find it remarkable that so-called PnP OSes tend to have the most difficulties with drivers in this case whereas in DOS which is commonly viewed as an OS that lacks PnP support it works out of the box - the true meaning of "Plug&Play". :-) Regards, Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --