Intel's uneven embrace of Free Software

Intel's uneven embrace of Free Software

Posted May 11, 2007 12:59 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Intel's uneven embrace of Free Software by brugolsky
Parent article: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

I absolutely agree with you.

BTW with the Santa Rosa platform they claim they are going to use EFI instead of a BIOS. It'll be interesting to see how it affects you.

(well most of it, the mac80211 (which seems to be the Linux stack of the future) was originally from DeviceScape, a wireless hardware provider that used Linux in it's designs. Of course it had to be beaten into shape to make it work with kernel.org Linux properly. It's due for inclusion with 2.6.22. The Intel stack has grown into disfavor and on their latest devices intel has rewriten their drivers to use the mac80211)

I like AMD a bit more then Intel.. but Via seems to have given up the ghost on new chipsets, Nvidia are bastards when it comes to Linux support and ATI is worse.

I just realy hope that AMD rubs off on ATI much much more then ATI rubs off on AMD.

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