“Abit appears to have headed off a boycott of its Linux distro
by open source users.”
“Resentment has been simmering for weeks, when Abit launched its
own distro under the Gentus brand. Abit is offering the software as
a bundle with its own motherboards, or as a free download. Gentus
Linux is basically Red Hat, plus patches for ATA-66 support and IDE
software RAID out of the box. The patches are available separately
under GPL.”
“The problem is, Abit has failed to acknowledge the author
of these patches and fulfill its GPL obligations, according to
critics. Andre Hedrick, the “Linux ATA/IDE guy”, has consistently
pointed that this amounts to theft.“
Complete
Story
Duke of URL: Abit’s Gentus Linux 2.0 [Review](Jun 08, 2000)
PenguinHardware.com: Interview with John Tsai of
ABIT/Gentus(Jun 07, 2000)
LhD: How Well Do Athlon (K7) Motherboard Work with Linux?(May
31, 2000)
Linuxnewbie.org: Gentus 2.0 First Look(May 15, 2000)
32BitsOnline: The World’s first lowest cost motherboard: ABIT’s
BP6(Apr 12, 2000)
t-break:
ABIT Introduces Gentus Linux: Linux, The ABIT WAY!(Feb 21,
2000)