IT Director: Intel and Linux: The Lintel Alliance Perhaps? | Linux Today

IT Director: Intel and Linux: The Lintel Alliance Perhaps?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 25, 1999

“Intel Corporation has announced that it will now enable Gigabit
Ethernet performance for Linux on Intel based servers. It is
providing a Linux(a) Gigabit driver, an open source software
driver, for its Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Server Adapter. In
conformance with the GPL, it is available free of charge to the
Linux development community on Intel’s Web site, allowing
developers to customise the driver to meet their individual company
needs…”

A Lintel alliance would make as much sense to Intel as a
Wintel one. And if Linux takes off on the desktop it will make an
awful lot more sense than a Wintel one…

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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