If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Mon May 18 05:43:43 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 13:19 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > http://keithp.com/blogs/Sharpening_the_Intel_Driver_Focus/
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Valent.
> > 
> 
> 
> There is something important so many bloggers overlook. If keithp speaks 
> in any sense for Intel, that blog should be hosted in a subdomain of 
> intel.com. That automatically gives it some cred, because Intel owns 
> that space.
> 
> Anyone can spend a few dollars and create a website. They can host it 
> themselves (as I do) or they can have paid-for hosting with any number 
> of hosting sites. Some are low-cost or free - see this for example
> http://www.bur.st/
> 
> keithp might be legit, he might not be. I've no good way of knowing.
> 
> I was going to say I have more personal information about Valent than I 
> have about keithp - I know Valent's family name for example, and given 
> that name there's a fair probability that Valent speaks Russian ahd 
> plays a pretty decent game of chess. But then, we don't really know that 
>   much for sure about anyone on the Internet, do we?
> 
> 
> All that aside, Intel graphics drivers do need some attention.

John,

A little tongue in cheek on who keithp is?

See maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Packard ;-]


R.





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