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Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the that-will-go-over-well dept.

girlmad tips this news from the Inquirer: "Intel's Clover Trail Atom processor can be seen in various non-descript laptops around IDF and the firm provided a lot of architectural details on the chip, confirming details such as dual-core and a number of power states. However Intel said Clover Trail 'is a Windows 8 chip' and that 'the chip cannot run Linux.' While Intel's claim that Clover Trail won't run Linux is not quite true — after all, it is an x86 instruction set, so there is no major reason why the Linux kernel and userland will not run — given that the firm will not support it, device makers are unlikely to produce Linux Clover Trail devices for their own support reasons."

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  1. Clover Tail Atom and Visual Studio by DevED · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Clover Tail Atom works if you code with the fabulous new Visual Studio. So Intel's intel is wrong.

    1. Re:Clover Tail Atom and Visual Studio by DevED · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Seriously, even the summary says that it works and Intel is wrong. Mod this up now.

  2. Re:antitrust issues? by Alex+Belits · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shut up, Microsoft astroturfer!

    We will complain about whatever we want to complain, companies should serve their customers and not the other way around.

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    Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
  3. Re:antitrust issues? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I hear AMD makes some fine chips.

    Yeah, and some people will actually vote for Romney. It's a wild world.