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Hardware Manufacturers that Actively Support Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the doing-more-than-paying-lip-service dept.

wirefarm asks: "I know there is are lot of well-supported pieces of hardware for Linux, but I was wondering, which vendors really go out of their way for the community? While tracking down drivers for a wireless PCMCIA card today, I found that the vendor boasted of having Linux support, but it was seemed that they were actually touting drivers that were community-developed, rather than written with any help of the company. So my question is this: Which companies really stand out when it comes to providing specs and developing drivers?"

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  1. Re:NVIDIA For One.... by vidarh · · Score: 1, Troll
    You got it the wrong way around. THEY should be friggin grateful that Linux users put up with their binary drivers. I for one will NOT buy a graphics card with an NVIDIA chipset the next time I upgrade unless they give out specs or open source their drivers.

    I've tried practically every release of their driver, and followed practically every tip out there, but fact is my machine still crashes at least a couple of times a day whenever I use the Nvidia drivers vs. never if I use the open source drivers.

    Maybe it works for most people, but it doesn't work on my machine, an I'll vote with my money and take my business elsewhere.

  2. Re:nvidia, but... by Derek · · Score: 1, Troll
    "It's not my fault I'm not a device driver programmer."
    Ummmmm, actually it is. ;-)

    -Derek