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AMD Backs openSUSE with Huge New Infrastructure
apokryphos writes "AMD has helped sponsor the progress of openSUSE with leading-edge hardware and development expertise. "AMD is helping to ensure that the openSUSE Build Service continues to be an important collaboration and development platform for developers of all distributions," said Terri Hall, AMD vice president of Commercial Systems Marketing. Are these continued announcements of huge support from large OEMs an indication of a new era?"
I'm curious about this sudden SUSE push and the recent deals with Novell and Microsoft. I'm curious as to what is going on behind the scenes... is Microsoft working on a linux GUI? Something even more sinister? Or perhaps it is just a coincidence... but then again I don't believe in those.
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So what? Schools get volume discounts on Dells and HPs. Does that mean there should be a news article on how they sponsor eduction advancements?
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Save your hardware infrastructure and give me a god damn free driver.
Signed,
ATI user.
Now I am sad.
hopefully this could mean better support for ati cards...
How is this different than apt-get, or even just using Google to search for packages?
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it
but if you really want to help give us some open source drivers for ati graphics cards or at least closed source ones that don't totally suck.
So they donated Intel processors?
I was just thinking the same thing, the past several days have been very dynamic in the way of licensing/FOSS in big business. We have sun, bittorrent, mysql, amd, proprietary AV systems, a DUI driver wins code, NewYorkCountryLawyer, Dell with on-board virtualization, openSuse, and well I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere because /. has had a good story every couple of hours for a few days now. It's almost scary. Ooh, Linux kernel developers coming under fire for not paying enough attention to the desktop, too. Anyone know how Vista is doing these days?
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I would very much prefer them to support Debian rather than openSUSE.
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That's a Microsoft product, right? Just checking, that's all.
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I think its nice that thier doing this, computers for kids and all. Kinda reminds me of when Icy Bro collaborated with Milli Vanilli back in the 90's. http://www.freewebs.com/icybro
so SUSE takes a big share of the market, it's just ms windows box being swapped for a microsoft linux, or am I missing something with the ms-novell thing?
seems to me that novell and suse must end up in a slag heap for linux to "win"
AMD doesn't care who owns linux, I guess they bet MS-Novell will sell lots of linux where everyone else failed
...but who is going to back up AMD? AMD asks for 1.5 billion
This is the attitude that prevents Linux from ever being adopted by people who just want to use the damn OS already and get on with life. Apt-get and googling are not as simple as a well-designed frontend would be. Having to type in some stupid command or googling around for stuff is kind of retarded for an operating system you ever want accepted by more than the 12 Linux-fluent people using it.
We only talk about Vista when there's nothing more important to discuss.
I would very much prefer them to support Debian rather than openSUSE.
Well I'd rather them support Ubuntu and my friend would rather Redhat. My dog likes Gentoo because he loves compiling.
Every time a company tries 'throwing a bone' to the open source community and chooses a system to support (which will inevitably filter to the other distros), the linux geeks go, "But wait.. I like this distro instead."
Just be happy; it's linux.
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What's the whole point of openSUSE again. If the GPL is such an onerous license then why don't Novell strip all GPL licensed code from SUSE Linux, after all, what's only valuable is the kernel, right 'elsewhere'
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Suse is now Novell which is just a member of The Borg collective... Then you can understand why it's that distro which gets most of the support deals, and why there are huge efforts (backed by a lot of The Borg's $$$, see brain damaged software patents deals as money transfer) trying to lock out the other distros (those not yet assimilated by The Borg collective) from mainstream.
No matter what step Novell takes, till the deal with Microsoft is alive, I'll never touch or recommend this distro. Why AMD, IBM/Lenovo or others push openSUSE they doesn't like Debian's "Social Contract" or The Ubuntu Promise ?
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these companies would give a project money is to get something in return. Perhaps an "Optimized for..." labeling for their processor on that distro? Worked for tech n00bs on mp3 players and the like with Microsoft and their "guarantee" sticker on end-user products.
Save your hardware infrastructure and give me a god damn free driver.
Unfortunately I could not agree with you more. I used to be an ATI fan through and through. But when they changed their policy I could not get proper drivers support for my OSes I switched to its main competitor and haven't looked back. But I also suspect the competitor's driver problems with Vista are related.
Seems like hardware vendors are going to have to align themselves with an OS. Similar problems exist with wireless cards and the like. Take Broadcom's stance on open source drivers.
My purchase policy, even if I buy Windows is simple, it supports open source drivers or your off my buy list. Even if I have to buy a PC/laptop for dumping Vista to load XP for short term reasons, I know sooner or later I am going to run Linux on it and want to know the drivers are there.
AMD inherited a marketing nightmare with ATI...and emailing them is useless. I tried.
Are these continued announcements of huge support from large OEMs an indication of a new era?"
only if it means there is finally support for these damn Broadcom wireless chips.
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Really, that's swell. But I didn't see anything about 3D chipset documentation. That means if I were to replace my computer today, it would probably have an Intel 965 chipset. (Sure, some people say it's "slow" but it's gotta be faster than my 7-year-old G400MAX. (Right? Anyone know?)) AMD, you don't happen to make processors that will plug into one of those motherboards, do you?
It's weird for a hardware company to fund software whose users they're going to pressure into running on competing hardware.
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Now the truth is known. and i was about to buy a NON drm motherboard from AMD guess i keep buying older stuff for now.