ubuntuforums.org — Only a week after the bad press coverage regarding the Linux-related bugs in a number of motherboards released by Foxconn (Which turned out to be the AMI BIOS that several board makers use), Foxconn is the first vendor out with a publicly released test patch that fixes the bulk of the problems, allowing kernel 2.6.26 to run well on the G33M series.
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t0x2cAug 2, 2008
You mean they're taking out the bug they put in?
djgreedoAug 3, 2008
Less than 1% use Linux.I agree. The manufacturer has no obligation for their hardware to work on an operating system it was not certified for. Seems pretty simple to me. And they have no reason to spend resources testing their hardware on the off chance that a handful of Linux users would use it and have an unforseen issue.
thedude42Aug 3, 2008
I think we're missing the bigger point here. There are mountains of documentation on linux hardware support. Linux and the PC world co-exists because of the standards that are the PC architecture, something that even Microsoft relies on in order to maintain their existence. To this day I have yet to see the boxes PC hardware comes in with a label that says "Windows ONLY". I have seen the "supports windows 98/2000/xp" labels, which usually indicates the drivers included with the hardware. Everyone in the PC world understands that is what those labels mean. But this time Foxconn used their "official support" line to basically ignore a pretty freaking poor bug in one of the few pieces of software they themselves have to provide for their hardware.Did the guy in the post sound like a whining brat? Maybe, but he isn't the multinational company Foxconn is, so it's his own right to look like a retard. Foxconn, on the other hand, dropped the ball when they failed to realize that a paying customer did a lot of work to help them improve their products. I see Foxconn's initial reaction here as the real catalyst for this whole ordeal.In the end, though, Foxconn shows that although their first tier e mail responders and subsequent correspondence may have been lacking,t hey posess the integrity and responsibility necessary for a company like theirs to succeed in the future, so kudos to them.
schrutefanAug 3, 2008
You're still on my s**tlist, Foxconn. You're only "fixing" it because you got caught.
djgreedoAug 4, 2008
Well, yes. But the issue here is that Foxconn did not know about the issue until it became a problem, so how were they expected to have avoided the problem?It's obvious that their testing resources would be spent on Windows since the vast majority of thier hardware is going to go into Windows machines.And it is good that they have apparently fixed the issue. That's more indicative of their company. Everyone makes mistakes. It's what you do about them that counts.