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It’s Time To Stop Playing Catch-Up: Intel, Drivers and WiMAX

November 12, 2007 on 10:05 pm | In Linux, Hardware | 6 Comments

Too frequently in the past has Linux had to spend months—even years—implementing support for the latest technologies for which the manufacturers have not bothered to make Linux drivers (either due to the extra costs or merely disinterest in the platform). Linux developers had to reverse engineer each technology to find out everything about it that wasn’t disclosed by the manufacturer in the hardware’s official documentation so that they could provide support for it in an Open Source driver.

Thankfully, the substantial increase in the uptake of Open Source software such as Linux, and the more widespread recognition of its huge potential as an adaptable and expandable Operating System, has attracted commercial hardware manufacturers such as Intel to the system and to the entire Open Source movement. There has been an unadvertised revolution.

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