Intel Begins Support for Debian

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday November 17, 2005 @08:51PM 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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Intel supports open source? by dascandy · 2005-11-17 23:03 · Score: 0, Troll

They support open source by providing closed source drivers for an open source platform, which you can only install after reading and agreeing to a EULA. It might just be me, but aren't those the EXACT THINGS that open source is meant to not have?