“Corel has bolstered its Linux-for-everyone strategy by
collaborating with three firms to improve video, font and audio
features of the operating system….“
“But one factor dampening more widespread adoption of Linux by
unsophisticated computer users is the sometimes incomplete support
for hardware. For example, some video cards work under Linux, but
the operating system isn’t able to take advantage of all the
features such as accelerated drawing of three-dimensional
graphics.”
“Corel hopes to address this weakness with deals with S3,
Creative Labs and Bitstream. With help from those three, Corel will
support various hardware and software technologies in its Linux
products. In exchange, the outside companies will help do the
necessary programming to make it work.”
