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标  题: Adaptec Supports the Linux Community!
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jun 24 10:55:55 1998)

呵呵, 从Redhat.com抄来的新闻, 希望能有更多的硬件厂商意识到这一点

Adaptec Supports the Linux Community!

Research Triangle Park, NC--June 23, 1998--Red Hat?Software, Inc.,
publisher of the Red Hat Linux Operating System, announced today that
Adaptec, Inc., providers of bandwidth management technologies including
SCSI controllers, will support the Linux community by providing Linux
developers with tools and information to ensure quality Adaptec products
and drivers.

For Red Hat, Adaptec's support is proof positive that the Linux OS is
growing rapidly. "We at Red Hat have always recognized that the Linux
development model is unparalleled. That Adaptec recognizes the Linux
operating system and the Linux development model as beneficial to the PC
industry speaks volumes about the future of Linux," said Robert Young,
President, Red Hat Software.

"I have been using Adaptec controllers for several years, both in my PC
and as a PCMCIA controller for my notebook, so naturally I am glad that
Adaptec has chosen to embrace Linux," said Jon "maddog" Hall of Linux
International. "While the Linux community has been able to provide
drivers for some Adaptec controllers, it has been a lot easier, faster and
more dependable since Adaptec began actively supporting Linux,
particularly in the age of high-speed, highly dependable SCSI subsystems
that Adaptec creates."

Mike Wangsmo, Director of Quality Assurance, Red Hat Software, agreed.
"The driver quality and level of support that we can now offer truly
benefits the Linux OS and the Linux community. Having native support for
the cards rather than reverse engineered support gives huge performance
increases and really illustrates how well made the Adaptec controllers are."

Adaptec will provide SCSI chip design information and host adapters to
key developers in the Linux community, will provide Linux distributors
product and information for their respective QA labs, will investigate the
distribution of low level (e.g.hardware abstraction layer) source code as
open source to make it easier for developers to produce more
maintainable, reliable and extensible drivers, and will investigate Linux
support of other Adaptec products including ethernet cards, 1394, RAID,
etc.

"Adaptec is committed to being an industry leader by offering the broadest
and most reliable operating system support. Adaptec is excited to be
working with Red Hat Software, Inc. to ensure that comprehensive and
reliable driver technology is widely available to the Linux market," said
Andy Walsh, Marketing Manager of Adaptec's SCSI Channel Products
Group.

ABOUT ADAPTEC, INC. Adaptec (NASDAQ:ADPT) designs,
manufactures, and markets hardware and software products that optimize
the flow of data between computers, peripherals, and networks to improve
total system and application performance. More information on Adaptec's
products can be found at www.adaptec.com.

ABOUT LINUX Linux is the freely distributable, cooperatively-developed
POSIX-based, multi-user, multi-tasking operating system used worldwide.
Linux is used as a high value, fully-functional UNIX?workstation for
applications ranging from Internet Servers to reliable work group
computing.

ABOUT RED HAT?SOFTWARE, INC. Founded in 1994, Red Hat
Software is based in Research Triangle Park, NC, where it builds and
maintains the leading distribution of the Linux operating system. Working
in cooperation with a huge development team of research, academic, and
commercial software developers over the Internet, Red Hat's goal is to
build the most accessible and advanced operating system available
anywhere. Red Hat Linux for Intel DEC Alpha(TM), and Sun SPARC
platforms continues to gain recognition in the computer industry: From
1996 to the present, Red Hat Linux was twice named InfoWorld's Product
of the Year, was given a Productivity accolade in Software Development's
"Jolt" Awards, and was named an Environment/Desktop finalist in the
Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards.

Red Hat Software also publishes and maintains commercial applications for
Linux including OSF Motif, CDE, and the Applixware Office Suite.

RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat Software, Inc. LINUX is
a trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The
Open Group. INTEL is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. Products
bearing the SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by
Sun Microsystems, Inc. ALPHA is a trademark of Digital Equipment
Corporation. APPLIX and APPLIXWARE are registered trademarks of
Applix, Inc.

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