Intel

Source: https://fossbazaar.org/content/case-stories-good-and-bad-community-inter...

It is often argued that companies have to work with the FOSS community and there are good reasons for doing so. I've tried to collect a number of case stories of good and bad community interaction that may help as a starting point for further exploration of this topic:

Source: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9783019417.html

Intel CEO Paul Otellini (pictured) reportedly told the Associated Press that Linux will dominate sales of mobile Internet devices (MIDs). Meanwhile, ABI Research predicts that by 2013, Linux will outsell Windows by two to one in the combined market for MIDs, netbooks, and UMPCs.

The Associated Press interview represented another strategic and incremental shift for Intel away from its long-time partnership with Microsoft, said USA Today. According to the publication's account, the Intel CEO told the Associated Press that MID activity will be "centered around Linux."

Source: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/115135

Intel has acquired embedded Linux specialists OpenedHand. The London based company, with offices in Paris and Helsinki, offers software development and services in the mobile embedded Linux field.

OpenedHand maintains a number of open source projects such as Matchbox, an X Window manager for small devices, and Pimlico, a compact personal information manager. Intel say that it will continue to support these OpenedHand led projects. The company, which describes itself as "Kind of like the 'Millenium Falcon' of FLOSS or worst case an ewok village", has a client list that includes Nokia, the One Laptop Per Child Project, OpenMoko and ST Microelectronics. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Source: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2195541892.html

FST announced a software development kit (SDK) for its lightweight graphics stack optimized for mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The FancyPants SDK for MIDs combines an API for the lightweight GUI with an embedded runtime, and is designed to work with the Linux-based Moblin stack.

(Click for larger view of FancyPants running on the Compal JAX10 MID)

Source: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7012396628.html

An anti-virus software vendor has promised to protect Linux-based laptops and MIDs (mobile Internet devices) from "security challenges." McAfee says its encryption products will protect data on lost and stolen laptops, while its "mobile content" security products will help protect MIDs used to surf the dangerous "open Internet."

Source: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Vendors-Boost-Open-Source...

At the OSCON show, Black Duck and Intel are offering better ways for open-source developers to accelerate software development and improve their parallel processing capabilities.

PORTLAND, Ore.—Black Duck Software and Intel are the latest vendors to make substantial improvements to their open-source development tools, the latest indicators of the open-source movement's growing presence in the application development field.

Black Duck, which offers products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open-source software, announced July 22 the expansion to the volume of open-source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine.

Edit: EEEK!! Why is it to wide? Anyone else seeing it too wide? Anyone a clue how to fix it?

This howto is based on own experiences and this german wiki page, so thx to them.

It is tested for intel Core2Duo and CoreDuo cpus. I have no clue if it works for AMD as well. Some answers I received suggest that it currently doesn't work with AMD cpus however.

Ussualy effect intel HDA sound cards...Sound comes out both fronts and headphones at same time!

My Solution for Ubuntu8.04.............Basicaly you just want to add a switch to the volume controll!

Tell alsa which driver to use for your hda intel sound card. You do this by first looking at the output of
Code:
head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*

Mine was:
Codec Realtek ALC888

SO you then issue the command:
Code:
zless /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ALSA-Configuration.txt.gz

Look for the subtitle "Module snd-hda-intel".
In this subsection look for the name of codec “you” aquired from the output above...Mine was Realtek ALC888...so after locating the list for “Module snd-hda-intel” I scrolled down further to find:

Asus will bring the Eee Box desktop to the UK in August, the company announced today. However, it confirmed to Register Hardware that machine will initially only ship with Windows XP Home Edition.

The compact desktop contains not Intel's desktop-oriented Atom 230 processor, as anticipated, but the less power-hungry notebook version, the N270, Asus revealed. Both CPUs are clocked at 1.6GHz and contain 512KB of L2 cache. But the N270 consumes 2.5W of power, while the 230 has a 4.5W TDP.

Asus' Eee Box: no Linux version at launch

The Eee Box also packs into its one-litre casing 1GB of DDR 2 memory, an 80GB hard drive - no solid-state storage here - 802.11n Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet and a five-in-one memory card reader. There are three USB 2.0 slots and a VGA port.