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NLUUG/ELCE: Embedded devices and free softwareNLUUG/ELCE: Embedded devices and free softwarePosted Nov 13, 2008 14:50 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)In reply to: NLUUG/ELCE: Embedded devices and free software by NAR Parent article: NLUUG/ELCE: Embedded devices and free software
Great example.
This issue has received attention. Then Intel provided powertop. Which exposed issues all over the place that people started fixing. I think that this eventually amounted to thousands coders helping to reduce the drain of batteries.
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NLUUG/ELCE: Embedded devices and free software Posted Nov 13, 2008 20:35 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]
Yeah, they are working on it. Maybe some day it will have some results as well. I mean it's just enough to read LWN: there was an article about "sound in Linux - it's a mess" a couple of weeks ago. There are problems with graphics support (either no free software driver or the performance of the hardware is "modest"). Pretty much problems everywhere the user looks at. And these problems are not too recent either. So I can understand the companies in the embedded business if they fail to see the advantages of the free software model (except the price tag, which with the support costs might not be that good).
NLUUG/ELCE: Embedded devices and free software Posted Nov 15, 2008 11:26 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
That's exactly the point of working with the community. We DO have results
in the latest kernel & userspace tools, but because vendors don't work with the community and use outdated kernels, they won't profit from it for the foreseeable future. The benefit of working with the community would be gaining new features faster. More innovation, shorter time to market. Exactly what they could need to outperform the proprietary competition!
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