On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, William Morder wrote:

> I assumed readers would know I meant that, in Linux, drivers are packaged in a
> such a way that quite often we "never notice them", as you put it; except,
> that is, when it comes to third-party, proprietary stuff.

ok, so it just comes down to a matter of perception but we have 
agreement on what a 'driver' is (thanks, E. Liddel) and also that not 
everything is "out of the box" in Linux for some of us.

> Thanks for the message, as I am glad to see that your address is not getting
> marked as spam.

E. Liddel's messages *always* go to spam in my case as well as one or 
two others. no loss since I regularly check and haul them out but then 
they are not in sequence. my address hides the fact it is a gmail 
system. I should write a filter.

f.

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Felmon Davis