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Wow, how far has Microsoft screwed up their decades long partnership with Intel that Intel would throw public support behind the Linux desktop is pretty stunnin
by programminggeek 13y ago
Wow, how far has Microsoft screwed up their decades long partnership with Intel that Intel would throw public support behind the Linux desktop is pretty stunning. It doesn't matter because Windows will obviously outsell on desktop/laptop PC's from major vendors like HP and Dell, but still. Microsoft has really fallen these last few years.
- wmf 13y agoIntel has been paying lip service to Linux for years but most of their desktop/mobile Linux initiatives have failed. If nothing else, it's a great bargaining tactic to keep Microsoft in check.
- ternaryoperator 13y agoIntel has been vocally supporting Linux for years, including contributing OS code, drivers, software dev tools, and even rewrites of the OS for platforms (see Tizen). They were doing this long before MS's decline.
- bluecalm 13y agoAlso free C compiler for Linux which costs 400$ (or w/e it is now) on Windows :( It was major pain untile recently when gcc port caught up with visual studio compiler as there was nothing else with decent performance and C99+ support.
- ansible 13y agoWhatever else, I do appreciate Intel's efforts in this area. My home desktop/Mythbox/media server/game machine is running all open source code (there might be a few binary blobs for device firmware though). Of course, all that available source code hasn't helped me debug a video de-interlacing issue with Intel's hardware accelerated video decoding... the next ingredients I need are time and motivation. :-)
- pavlov 13y agoIntel has been supporting Linux for a long time. They've even had their own Linux distributions and UI framework development since at least Moblin, which came out back when netbooks were all the rage - around 2008? If anything, Intel seems to have had remarkably little success considering the amount of effort they've put into Linux. Moblin was merged with Nokia's mobile Linux Maemo to create Meego, and that floated in the market like a rock tied to a solid block of concrete. Since then, Intel has been doing Tizen with Samsung. It's a closed-development mystery OS that seems to be meant for everything, with every kind of UI, but still isn't shipping anywhere with any kind of UI anytime soon.
- kyrra 13y agoEven beyond using linux as a desktop OS, Intel has had an internal Linux distro for a much longer time (if I remember right, they were still stuck on Linux 2.4.x back in 2007, as re-writing a lot of their custom drivers and kernel changes would was taking them a long time to move up to 2.6.x). A lot of their new CPU testing (for development and QA) is done with Linux. It just gave them the control they needed to test new CPUs, chipsets, and other components.
- outside1234 13y agoI worked at Intel for a brief bit in their software group - it is literally a comical place. There is no chance anything interesting is making it out of there.
- georgemcbay 13y agoSeems like a pretty good hedge on Intel's part considering how Microsoft has been pursuing a device-centric future for Windows where x86 is supported but so is ARM.
- straight_talk_2 13y agoMS and Intel have the same partnership as airlines and hotels. Each wants their partner to make as little profit as possible, as that leaves more client money for grabbing. Intel has been among the top 5 Linux kernel contributors for many years.