Unfortunately, because of the very tight control wars over drivers in general, Linux has lagged in the wireless world. Talk about giving away the golden egg – how would you like to broadcast every little thing that makes you special to your competitors worldwide?! The problem stems from drivers, which (for open source operating systems especially) divulge a lot of secrets for how the hardware operates. Windows and OSX have such simple ways of dealing with wireless, but for many very good corporate reasons, open-source alternatives have not seen such love. Unfortunately, one thing has continued to stay on the fringes of penguin compatibility no matter how pervasive it's become in day-to-day life: Wireless networking. It's true that some things still aren't utterly plug-and-pray, but a lot of things really are nowadays. What bugs me is that when asked why, I'm hearing complaints from ages past treated as present-day problems: 'I don't want to have to work in a command line,' and 'It's so hard to configure,' are just a couple of examples. However, many people will immediately say that Linux is simply not ready for the masses – and I agree with them. It's just that I think there are some things that are better if free – and anyone with a computer has a right to a stable, secure operating system. It's not that I hate Microsoft or wish that Windows would fall into the pit of 1,000 hells and burn forever and ever amen.uh, sorry, I got carried away. It doesn't take many looks over my articles to work out that I'm a bit of an open-source fanboy.

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