Intel Release Graphical Installer for Their GNU/Linux Drivers
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Interesting bit of information for anybody in need of an update:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/04/intel-release-graphical-installer-for-their-linux-drivers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28OMG!+Ubuntu!%29
This should make it easier for users to update *just* the graphics components needed for the latest 3d acceleration, etc (for newer systems than Trisquel natively supports).
thanks, that is good info
i run that installer on my system, it says
Checking if Intel graphics card available... OK Retrieving information from 01.org... Failed Diagnostics finished with an error
well will try again later
In this case it's just "Linux"(kernel) or am I mistaken?
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I'm assuming it'll work with linux-libre although I didn't really think about it. Not sure how it works exactly. Maybe somebody else can try it, investigate, and clarify.
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I think he was talking about naming issues.
The drivers are for the kernel, Linux(-libre?); the installer, being a GUI, runs over a WM, so it could be over GNOME (a GNU project) or others (KDE etc.). I don't know if it would be using GNU in other cases (e.g. KDE, which uses Qt... do anybody knows if KDE needs GNU?).
Its a Linux driver. Does it need GNU? Kind of. It is probably linked against glibc/libstdc++ (even though there is libclc, but nobody™ uses that)
[™] I heard folks at FreeBSD like Clang stuff.
so yes, the installer wont work for Trisquel, but there is a description how to add the driver repository manually to the system. i tried that and it seems to work.
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/how-to-use-intel-linux-graphics-drivers.html