[Tfug] Linux+ASUS?

[erich]

Yes,
     I was able to pull up the site. Very interesting. There's a lot
of material in the article Microsoft might not want the consuming
public to know about. It wouldn't be the first time that arrange-
ments between hardware manufacturers and Microsoft intended
to "cut out" the open source community have occurred. With
Vista, its on a much grander scale, however.

                                                       Erich


christopher floess wrote:

>I have ASUS mb, but it's old, and I don't run Linux, so I can't tell you
>about the
>drivers. I do have a co worker who told me that after the mess with Vista
>not
>accepting unsigned drivers, some of the manufacturers started making
>drivers Linux. I did a quick google search for this, and I wasn't able to
>come
>up with any of them, so as of now I guess it's just hear-say. But here is a
>link
>to an in depth article that addresses the signed driver issue with Vista.
>
>www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
>
>When I was did the search for it though, the site seemed to be unreachable,
>so you might have to read google's cached copy of it by doing a search for
>
>'Cost analysis vista'
>
>~ Cheers
>
>On 5/28/07, Sean Warburton <hl2addict at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Does anyone have an ASUS motherboard? If so, did it come with Linux
>>drivers?
>>I recently (3-4 months ago) got a new SLI motherboard (The P5N32-SLI
>>Premium
>>WiFi-AP edition), and it had Linux drivers for everything (RAID, SLI,
>>audio,
>>chipset, WiFi, etc.). ASUS must have done this recently, because about a
>>year ago I got the ASUS P5WD2-E Premium mobo so I could play around with
>>crossfire. That CD didn't have anything except for 32 and 64 bit XP
>>drivers. Perhaps open source is really making some headway out there. In
>>fact, I recall a Maximum PC (or some gaming PC magazine) telling its
>>readers
>>to NOT go get Vista, and instead had instructions for a basic install of
>>Ubuntu (because it was the best Linux port out there for noobs). Don't get
>>me wrong; I respect commisar Gates for starting a business that eventually
>>started taking over the world, but it will take more than a flashy
>>interface
>>and how many millions of extra lines of code (I heard numbers from 50-200
>>million) ON TOP Of XP to impress me. XP still has bugs in it. But I
>>digress. it's just interesting that ASUS would ship thier motherboards
>>with
>>linux drivers...
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>>--
>>Windows Vista Ultimate beta (build 5600)
>>Ubuntu 6.10 (dual boot)
>>ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium
>>Intel Core 2 Duo 6600
>>dual eVGA 7900 GT OCs (full x16 SLI)
>>1 gig DDR2 PC2-6400 (OCd to 866MHz)
>>250 gig RAID 1 (mirroring)
>>custom Liquid cooling :)
>>four 17" CRTs (uber widescreen)
>>7.1 surround sound (296 watts)
>>one happy gamer
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