[conspire] good reasons to buy usb wifi (and other things) from raspberry pi sellers [Re: WiFi adapter]

Tony Godshall togo at of.net
Thu Jan 16 16:46:23 PST 2014


> On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Tony Godshall <togo at of.net> wrote:
>
>>  BTW- I've been buying USB peripherals for
>>  Raspberry Pi and finding they work *great*
>>  with other linux devices- way fewer driver
>>  hassles.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Ross Bernheim
<rossbernheim at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Given that the Pi does not have all the drivers that some other
> distributions of Linux do and the large number of “testers” it is not
> surprising that those
> drivers that they have would be for well behaved and documented USB devices.

Indeed that is one good reason to buy them.

The other is to support linux-friendly vendors like adafruit,. or any
vendor that sells RPi.

Tony




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