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Intel Begins Support for Debian

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the coming-around dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An Intel Software Architect announced on the Debian mailing list yesterday that Intel has begun supporting Intel devices on Debian sarge for their extensive reseller channel. This covers the D845, D865 and D915 chipsets and was done to meet customer demand. They've posted drivers as well as the various distributions supported by the chip maker (Debian, Mandriva, Novell and Red Hat). Looks like the pure open source distributions are finally getting the attention of the big players!"

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  1. "Customer Demand" by samjam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Excellent! This skews the reseller scene somewhat such that others will be required to follow to equalize. In following they will skew it even more against the laggards who will finally capitulate.

    Huzzah!

    Sam

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    blog.sam.liddicott.com
  2. Why support distributions? by Skapare · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why support distributions when what is needed for that support is either actual drivers (open source), or technical information to allow kernel developers to write the drivers. Instead, this "support" should be specifically targeting "The Linux Kernel". Then supplementary support can be provided to retractively install those drivers in distributions containing older kernel versions that don't include the drivers. Genuine "Linux Support" would mean doing whatever is necessary so that a future kernel version will correctly function with the targeted hardware. Likewise, similar support should also be provided for all the BSDs (even if just supplying the info to let the developers create the necessary code).

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    now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
  3. It's shame, isn't it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was very happy to note Intel released drivers for Linux. I use Linux desktop on Intel 865. I did not want to buy dual-core (Intel 945-based) because no drivers.

    BUT, I was very surprised and very much disappointed to see notes on Intel website.
    (http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/cz/cz_ drive.htm)

    For Windows:
    Note: The Windows* OS device drivers listed have been evaluated on this Intel® Desktop board. ....

    For Linux:
    1. All BETA and Linux* information and software contained herein is provided "AS IS" to Intel customers. Intel Corporation disclaims all express or implied warranties and liabilities for the use of this document, the software...

    Why such a discrimination? For Windows, fully tested, for Linux, eat as it is!!!!

    Isn't it a shame for manufacturer like Intel to say we released drivers untested??? This is unbelievable and very very iresponsible.

    We can forgive a poor open source programmer who develop a driver and say I don't have resources to test for all chipsets but it runs on my computer.

    What's the execuse multi-billion dollar Intel has to say? No resources? Cannot afford to allocate at least one programmer to test them?