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VIA's Linux Portal
Jun 2, 2008, 21 :45 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (5250 reads)

(Other stories by Dave Jones)

"I've been biting my tongue over this for a while, but it's now been a month, and I think that's long enough. Perhaps I'm an impatient a**hole, but a lot of what I'm about to describe could be easily rectified in minutes.

"It's getting a little hard to take VIA's new 'portal' seriously when a month after its introduction, there hasn't been a single line of source code released there, but multiple updates to various drivers including binaries of a Linux kernel driver I wrote, which I had to end up disassembling to find out what they had changed. (Which afaict, was just a missing PCI ID)..."

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This is what they always do.  Come out o ...   Typical VIA BS   
Jimmy the Geek
Jun 2, 2008, 22:31:00
 
It's important that news like this b ...   unpleasant news   
Charles Hixson
Jun 3, 2008, 00:55:08
 
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