Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux hits a snag as Intel employees maintaining some of its drivers are laid off Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:00:36 +0200 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <107kmkc$fjp8$1@dont-email.me> <689e5392@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net JzsujxFnMjsytr1cL2O4lA0HxcHv/SnyYHKJiq3VpGnYKqCD2Q Cancel-Lock: sha1:oRuFCZo9i7esnbonp6gu6/rGqmo= sha256:Khc0/GNf/S/YVsyrtEMuuosxo8trbgZR2ois50IzlNA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71187 On 2025-08-15 10:35, rbowman wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:38:22 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 2025-08-14 23:22, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>> John McCue wrote: >>>> rbowman wrote: >>>>> https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-trouble-intel-employees-drivers- > laid-off/ >>>> >>>> What I do not understand about this, why can't the Linux Foundation >>>> hire them ? >>> >>> Well Intel are one of the top sponsors of the Linux Foundation too: >>> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members >>> >>> (buggy Javascript required, and that made Firefox fill up all my PC's >>> RAM and freeze, so I had to kill it. Just to display some company >>> logos. Huff! I wouldn't choose Linux as my OS based on that website!) >>> >>> >> The page loads fine here. > > It did load in Brave and only took 1.4 of the 8 cores to do so. I didn't > note the RAM usage. In Ffx I looked at "about:processes" and it only went up when moving the "cursor" up/dn, ie, when displaying a new section of it, as expected. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.