linux firewire recommendations

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Mon May 17 11:42:54 PDT 2004


On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 17:55:41 -0800
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On 01/07/03 11:02, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > I'm still a bit leery of USB-anything.  FireWire has been around and
> > well supported by Apple for quite a while so I suspect it's a bit more
> > robust.
> 
> Leery about what exactly?  USB seems to be far more mainstreamed on PC 
> hardware these days.

As in Intel make the USB chipset? Need I say more? USB2 is intel's
proprietary response to firewire. intel did not own/control the firewire
technology in their firewire offerings.



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