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I’m working in education and will change to other vendors in the near future. That means all my students will do so as well. Windows cannot provide feature par
by jwrallie 5mo ago
I’m working in education and will change to other vendors in the near future. That means all my students will do so as well.
Windows cannot provide feature parity for workloads that require cross compiling, AMD could at least support RHEL like the old days.
- charcircuit 5mo agoHave you tried docker or WSL2. Modern virtualization should make it possible to seamlessly run Linux while in Windows.
- arccy 5mo agonobody should support MicroSlop
- charcircuit 5mo ago[flagged]
- mzajc 5mo agoAMD dropped support for Linux on the free plan, not the other way around. Nor is this a Linux problem, because they still allow paid users to run the software on Linux. As far as what's evident from the support thread goes, this is the closest to a justification given: > AMD expectation is that the BASIC tier licensing level is used for simple, entry‑level needs. While more advanced, production-based workflows are aligned with paid tiers. Looks like AMD equates Linux to professional use and Windows to simple, entry-level needs :)
- charcircuit 5mo agoIf Microsoft didn't have a good operating system it wouldn't have such a dominant market share for the free tier of Vivado. If the Linux community actually properly competed and gained 50% market share then support would not have been dropped. You can't blame companies giving up on Linux on the company itself. Eventually the Linux community will need to take responsibility for their failures.
- mzajc 5mo agoI have, and compared to just running Linux it's not very good. For starters, the shared filesystem is incredibly slow, there is no hardware passthrough support out of the box (even for USB), the graphics support is incomplete and there's lots of non-standard defaults like custom kernel images and a custom init. That's on top of all the bugs and horrible error reporting. It still beats Windows, but given the choice, I'd much rather just use Linux properly and have all of this just work than waste my time fiddling with WSL/WSL2.
- manwe150 5mo agoThe open source community has hijacked VBox drivers to get USB pass through working and is the official solution from Microsoft to that problem (since it requires a signed driver on the host, and RedHat was authorized to sign drivers, so Microsoft can provide their drivers to work around the signing requirements of the OS)
- ua709 5mo agoJust of out of curiosity, what parts of the University Program don't appeal to you? https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/university-program.html https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/university-program.html You can get free licenses and donated hardware through this program.
- jwrallie 5mo agoI didn’t like that you are not supporting Linux in your free tier. Edit: if it is not clear, the way you treat the community is one way I evaluate my decisions to support or not your company when I suggest using your products to others, students or not.
- throwaway85825 5mo agoEducation is only valuable if there's a market for those skills and its hard to have a healthy market without a strong community.
- ua709 5mo agoFair enough but I don’t work for AMD.
- _humenberger 5mo agoA wide list of FPGA boards is supported by the open source FPGA eco system. Lattice, Xilinx, Gowin, Renesas, Colognechip, Generate a bitstream with our online tool. https://caas.symbioticeda.com/ https://caas.symbioticeda.com/
- WhyNotHugo 5mo agoThis is the obvious reaction. I wonder what AMD expected would happen if they cut off users, but the obvious expectation is that they'd start looking for alternatives. Especially Linux users, who are not typically inclined to pay licenses for software.