If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this

Leslie leslie.satenstein at gmail.com
Mon May 18 21:54:52 UTC 2009


g wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>
>   
>> If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this article, it
>> expains all complexities of Intel drivers and for me it shows hope
>> that Intel drivers are becoming better.
>>     
>
> intel sucks on anything but ms, because intel joined the ms whore house
> years ago along with many other oem suppliers because of their fear of
> not being included in ms specs.
>
> in off quote of b.g., 'exclusively ms or be left out'.
>
> many 'old heads' are aware of this, and it is what has made building
> linux drivers for a lot of good software very difficult when oem refuses
> to release specs on systems.
>
> given enough time, driver writers will be able to over come the ms
> monopoly so that there will be more hardware working in other than ms.
>
> page was a good read. thanks for posting.
>
>   
Contrary to your unsubstantiated statements Intel is in fact very pro 
linux, and runs it inhouse.

My PC with the linux video drivers works with EVERY linux version that I 
have tried (COMPIZ and more)

OK, No 3D, but for the desktop or server platforms, it is A1.




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