Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jul 2007 20:29 UTC, submitted by David Lin
"Dell knows it won't happen overnight, but along side wanting to ship audio/video codecs, Intel Wireless 80.211n support for Linux, Broadcom Wireless for Linux, and being able to ship notebooks and desktops with Compiz Fusion enabled, Dell would like to see improved ATI Linux drivers."
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They've had well over 6 months to do something about it.
I guess I just don't think 6 months is all that long, given that this is a huge multi million dollar company and they're bound to be still working on getting integrated into AMD. Especially since AMD is fighting for their lives right now in the CPU sector and I doubt they're paying nearly as much attention to the GPUs.
Their Windows drivers are horrid
I hear that a lot, but I don't have any problem with their Windows drivers. In fact I think I prefer them to the competitions. I'm not sure if it is just a matter of being different than NVIDIA or what?
If I was AMD, as payback for the support by Sun, I would in return dedicate resources to developing drivers for Solaris
Since I'm not a Solaris user, I have to honestly say I don't care that much, although it would be nice. What I really want are some good open source drivers, though. Then they'd work on every OS that had a decent number of users.
Again, what I see from AMD's management is nothing more than clueless arrogance in the face of the titanic - they're ignoring the fact that they're declining, they're refusing to acknowledge
That's where we differ, I think. You see them as specifically ignoring the problem, whereas I see them as being too busy fighting for their lives in another sector to really get off their asses and fix this. IOW, lazy and distracted rather than just plain arrogant. Anyway, as I said, my patience isn't infinite. I'm giving them 12 months, and not a day more.
I say punish the whole damn company - simply fobbing off the responsibility to some other 'department' is a technique used by...
Yes, I know, but I like supporting "alternative" companies like AMD is to Intel. So I have some mixed feelings about them...