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AMD Backs openSUSE with Huge New Infrastructure

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the money-where-mouth-is dept.

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?"

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  1. microsoft connection? by datapharmer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  2. To AMD: by pajeromanco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Save your hardware infrastructure and give me a god damn free driver.

    Signed,

    ATI user.

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  3. Leading Edge by Iam9376 · · Score: 5, Funny

    AMD has helped sponsor the progress of openSUSE with leading-edge hardware and development expertise.


    So they donated Intel processors?
  4. Re:How is the build service different from apt by spyowl · · Score: 5, Informative

    How is this different than apt-get, or even just using Google to search for packages?


    You missed the part where it's a build service for developers. If you are a developer and have used or looked at their tools and interface, you'll find it will save you a lot of time, hassle and resources - write your software, upload it, and have it packaged and readily available for multiple distributions on multiple architectures. Your package has dependencies that have been updated by their developers? No problem, the service will automatically trigger to rebuild your package using the updated dependencies. Read more here.