Re: Do Genuine Intel Processors still work better for Linux?

From	ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin)
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.setup
Subject	Re: Do Genuine Intel Processors still work better for Linux?
References	<0ba16f08-a83f-42a5-9dcf-26209ae05cd8@m10g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1107221123070.1736@betelgeuse>
Message-Id	<slrnj2m4ij.67b.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us>
Date	2011-07-23 13:26 -0500

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On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<alpine.LNX.2.00.1107221123070.1736@betelgeuse>, Hans Goossen wrote:

>Greegor wrote:

>> What exactly is it that makes Intel processors work better for Linux?

cite?

>IMHO Intel is not exactly a very good friend of Linux...

and why do you think that to be true?   If I look at the ChangeLog for
the kernel released yesterday, I see

[compton ~]$ ls -l  ChangeLog-3.0
-rw-r--r--   1 ibuprofi users     6347251 Jul 22 12:21 ChangeLog-3.0
[compton ~]$ head -6 ChangeLog-3.0
commit 02f8c6aee8df3cdc935e9bdd4f2d020306035dbe
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu Jul 21 19:17:23 2011 -0700

    Linux 3.0

[compton ~]$ grep -c ^Author ChangeLog-3.0 
9843
[compton ~]$ grep -c '^Author:.*intel.com' ChangeLog-3.0 
796
[compton ~]$ grep -c '^Author:.*amd.com' ChangeLog-3.0 
91
[compton ~]$ grep ^Author ChangeLog-3.0 | cut -d'@' -f2 | sort | uniq
 -c | sort -rn | head -24 | column
    721 gmail.com>                    129 opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
    664 intel.com>                    124 nokia.com>
    633 redhat.com>                   120 cam.ac.uk>
    447 linux-foundation.org>         105 kernel.org>
    361 microsoft.com>                104 samsung.com>
    241 atheros.com>                  101 cn.fujitsu.com>
    226 ti.com>                        99 linaro.org>
    222 broadcom.com>                  97 linux.intel.com>
    215 davemloft.net>                 92 marvell.com>
    201 suse.de>                       91 amd.com>
    196 oracle.com>                    85 linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    142 suse.cz>                       81 chello.nl>
[compton ~]$

        Old guy

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