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Intel Sandy Bridge, disappoints on Linux

• rbanffy 16y ago
  > No drivers were provided for any flavor of Linux, and none were available short of building from source on our own. We do not feel this meets any reasonable standard for 'available'. You can always complain your favorite distro doesn't build for non-existent hardware... Come on. It's not like it's been available for any meaningful amount of time. Besides, building a kernel is not exactly rocket science, specially under Ubuntu. If you feel threatened by the required tools, maybe Linux is not the OS for you. And, BTW, if that will be the biggest disappointment of 2011, I'm relieved. I only wonder how it will work with Wayland.
  • wmf 16y ago
    It's not just the kernel; there are several different packages that need to be compiled. I think this article gives a better explanation of the situation: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODk3MA http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODk3M...
  • igravious 16y ago
    We're a far cry from 10 years ago, and I salute all the work done by all the volunteers, hackers & enthusiasts but now that the corps are drinking the koolaid I hope they deliver on their promises :)
    • rbanffy 16y ago
      Nobody promised to write drivers for hardware that's not released. If you are a big corporation deploying Sandy Bridge servers (highly unlikely - nobody is in a big hurry to deploy on servers with chips launched yesterday) you certainly have the human resources required to grab a kernel, grab the pieces and assemble it all together. Unless I misread the announcements, everything will be available by next Monday.