[wellylug] Intel motherboards etc?

[Richard Hector]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:45 +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:

> I haven't, and I really think I would have.

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:55 +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> I think that the sales jockey is smokin way too much wacky-baccy!!!
> 
> Google reveals nothing of that nature, and Intel are so heavily involved
> in driver development for their varous platforms, improving the Atom
> platform to make it more compatible with Android & other mobile linuxes,
> and their ongoing work in server space provide evidence that Intel have
> done, do and will continue to be investing heavily in Linux.  (Besides
> they know MS's days are numbered, and there not stupid enough to bet on
> MS world Domination.

Cheers, that's more or less what I thought.

> You can pretty much get any not too recent and not too archaic graphics
> card running with standard 2d no worries with no proprietary modules.
> And with Nouveau and RadeonHD, your even starting to get choice of
> entirely OSS 3D accel too, (even if it currently doesn't match the
> proprietary drivers performance).

That's good to know, thanks.

I'm also interested in the manufacturers' attitudes, too, though -
nVidia seem to care the least about OSS, while providing the best
performance. ATI/AMD made promises of support, but almost immediately
gave up on that, right? And Intel keep plodding on producing mediocre
chipsets, with no plug-in cards available, but make the most
contribution to OSS.

Oh, and Matrox seem to claim open source drivers, but require a
proprietary HAL, and their cards are expensive.

And there's noone else left (Tseng Labs? S3? SiS? Cirrus Logic? Trident?
Oak? All gone?).

Have I got that more or less right?

That would still put on-board Intel at the top of my list, I think.

Richard