“Devicescape's GPLed driver does promise to make Linux WiFi support easier, [but] don't think for a moment that it will quickly make adding WiFi support to Linux a snap,” writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, in a thoughtful Linux-Watch column outlining challenges facing Linux WiFi subsystem developers.

Vaughan-Nichols's story responds to news earlier this week that Devicescape has contributed an advanced WiFi stack to the open source community, under the GPL.

The Devicescape stack is great, Vaughan-Nichols suggests, but not a panacea. Read the whole column, to learn why.

 
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