Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:17:21 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18 |
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Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > No doubt part of the Wintel (intel + Microsoft) strategy to perpetually > break non-windows platforms with new incompatible > hardware like the switch over from the e1000 MT adapters to e1000 GT > which are not backward compatible with the older chipsets.
I presume you mean breaking /windows/ platforms?
As I noted, Linux often supports the hardware from the "big" hardware vendors before Windows does.
They use Linux as a "rabbit" to push Microsoft into supporting something, with the "Linux supports it already" argument.
Jeff
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