Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
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Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
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Re: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
#2>However Intel said Clover Trail "is a Windows 8 chip" and that "the chip cannot run Linux".
This will merely be seen as a challenge by the Linux community.
Edit: Also it's not that it won't run, it simply won't be supported. Which shouldn't be new to any Linux user by now.
Re: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
#3I presume this is some sort of deal to keep Android off it, as manufacturers will want supported chips.
Re: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
#4In other words, the same "Windows 8 Mobile will come with a locked EFI Secure Boot" we've known about. The OS is signed and verified by the bootloader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Int...
Re: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
#5Well... I'm not going to buy anything with that stupid chip then. Period.
Re: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
#6Well... I'm not going to buy anything with that stupid chip then. Period.
I was actually thinking about switching to AMD. Not that it'd make any difference...
Re: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
#7Well... I'm not going to buy anything with that stupid chip then. Period.
Why buy the bully chips at all?
Intel was always like that, therefore most of my PCs were on AMD where possible.
Re: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
#8Couple of ways to take this:
1) Microsoft has exerted leverage over Intel and got them to go down the preferred supplier route. Possible, and not overly surprising.
2) Intel is trying to carve a niche out and thinks its best bet is with the old hound.
3) The boring technical reason that there's loads of implementation and they can't be bothered making the changes to the Linux packages.
It sounds like it'll run but with none of the fancy features to shut down cores under low use, but Linux developers have been adding missing functionality for years so it's not exactly unusual.
Re: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
#9It's not that the chip won't run linux. It's that the device it comes shipped in will be UEFI locked down such as to make it impossible to install anything...
Until it's jailbroken and you install whatever on it you like.
Re: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux
#10Intel's decision to support only Windows 8 on Clover Trail might work for laptops but seems very risky for tablets, where x86 tablets running Windows 8 look to be priced close to Apple's Ipad and significantly higher than Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire HD.
Uhm, they surely meant the other way around?
Practically no one have ever switched OS on a tablet/phone whereas on a laptop you'd certainly expect to be able to run linux.
And what's the point of talking about the price? An x86 windows tablet is the only tablet that is able to run real applications. For those that want that the price is more than justified. Those that don't want that should probably buy an arm + windows RT tablet (which is probably more competitive to the reduced feature set of smartphone-based devices such as android and iOS).