Hi Boyblue,
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I am not VIA staff so can't answer your question to them
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Thanks for taking yout time
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but I thought the whole point of Linux is that it is free, open source and for people that like to play around with an computing operating system.
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Dude, I will have to disagree. You have to consider professional, and non-professional use... Linux trully is a good alternative for many end-users companies and also third-sector. Please don't see it only as a geek toy. Let me give you an example:
ALL Public schools in Brazil use Linux, because the government no longer could afford Windows and Office Licenses. Small kids are not programmers. All they want (and they deserve) is a working PC to study and play. Most of this cheap hardware in schools, public buildings, etc, runs on VIA based motherboards... The educational software ofently uses OpenGL and stuff than does not work on VIA based PCs!!
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There are now so many Linux versions out there which one should VIA or any other company support so you can have your laptop working.
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No, Linux does not work lie this... No distribution will support VIA hardware to all it's possibilities until VIA helps ora developer manages to "find out" the internal hardware specs and functions... Once either of this happens, *all* Linux distos will support it. VIA should actually cooperate with XORG, which is present in all distros (as Intel and many others do!).
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Your computer was sold to you with XP on it, did you asked the sale person if it would run Linux any version, did you research the net about it. No I see you did not. If XP runs everything you want why use linux at all, I don't get it.
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My computer was sold with Linux. I bought it with Linux, expecting it to work. I had never had hardware based on VIA before, so I didn't know it wouldn't work. I never expected that. The laptop vendor does a lot of publicity in Brazil about it's Linux laptops and how they work out-of-the-box. I trusted that. Now they say it's not their fault but VIA's, and after researching the NET and trying to make this thing work for so long, I do agree with the vendor. It is VIA responsibility. Yes, I did try XP to see if it would work, but I am not a XP user, I don't like it, I prefer Linux, I am not gonna go back to Windows...
My opinion (again): I think VIA or any chipset manufacturer can go two ways:
1. Not support Linux, only Windows, *explicitly*, no small letters, in all it's communication and publicity. "We don't do Linux, period."
2. Support Linux, understading it is a important OS and thus follow the Linux community "rules" and "expectations", to the best of it's efforts, or at least with the same will as Windows is supported.
I don't see any advantage for end-users or for the chipset company to be in between this two categories.
Effenberg