Re: On Linux-friendly manufacturers

From: Rogério Brito (rbrito_at_ime.usp.br)
Date: 01/16/05

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    On Jan 15 2005, J.F.Gratton wrote:
    > Well apparently, according to Thomas Winischhofer (author of the SiS
    > driver for XFree), Sis is not *that* linux-friendly; go and see the
    > introduction on http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.html.

    I tried to see the page you indicated, but it was not found on the site.
    The correct page now is <http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsisvga.shtml>.

    Anyway, it's good to know that to be even more cautious when purchasing
    hardware with Linux in mind.

    The situation right now is not that good and I see that many large
    corporations (like IBM, Intel etc) have divisions that seem to support
    Linux and divisions that seem to not support Open Source Operating
    Systems, unfortunately.

    BTW, I had the impression that SiS was a Linux-friendly corporation due to
    the fact that they have some developers participating on the linux-kernel
    mailing list.

    And, IIRC, I remember that Alan Cox said that VIA provided documentation to
    their hardware for developers (it may be that it was under a NDA, I don't
    remember).

    > The guy is a an Austrian Lawyer who wrote the driver by himself with not
    > much of help from SiS apparently. He's actually a proof for me that
    > lawyers are not *that* useless :)

    Heh. :-) In the same way that not all Computer Scientists are useful. :-)
    If you are quite deep into the Theoretical stuff, you may not even know how
    to use a computer, besides using Emacs and LaTeX for typing papers. :-)

    But speaking seriously now, I think that it would be nice to have hardware
    review sites that focused on Linux *with* Open Source drivers. Well, not
    exactly Linux, but Open Source Operating Systems in general, since we may
    want to go back and forth between them.

    []s, Rogério 

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