[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Intel has in mind a two-phase approach to providing software
that Linux needs to take advantage of the processor maker’s
Centrino chips, an Intel executive said Wednesday.“The chipmaker likely will begin by releasing a proprietary
software module, called a driver, said Will Swope, general manager
of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group, speaking in an interview
at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here. He said he hopes the
company will later offer an open-source driver, software that the
general Linux programming community may scrutinize and reshape if
desired.“The move would mean Intel is working to ensure that support for
Linux is on par with that for Microsoft Windows, which has had full
support since Centrino launched in March 2003…”