True, from my experience at intel, I've seen the usually go for RH support
first ( duh, they have a big steak in RH), they also are kinda into openBSD
right now .. so.. we shall see ..

Thomas Fitzgerald
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From: "SMITH David" <DSmith@...>
To: <general@...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:37 AM
Subject: RE: [ptp-general] Intel plans Linux support for Centrino

> > >Sounds like quite an about-face from a story only 4 days
> > older.  This
> > >story from the Register implies that the engineers at Intel
> > are quite
> > >happy providing linux support, but the marketing guys are so tied to
> > >uncle Bill that they won't allow the engineers to play nice with the
> > >linux folks.
> > >
> > >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29840.html
> >
> > Or is that issue with the engineers and marketing people
> > about Lindows?
> > Lindows probably seems pretty controversial to them for it's attempt
> > at outright replacing Windows, not even competing with it.
> >
> > Josh
>
> I'm sure you're right about their concern over Lindows.  I'm not as
> smart as many of the next guys but if your hardware supports the usual
> distros, won't it also implicitly support lindows?  In other words
> whether the argument is about support for lindows specifically or linux
> in general it boils down to the same device drivers that need to be
> provided to the penguin community.  So if they make sure they don't
> support lindows aren't they making sure they don't support the other
> distros?
>
> David
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