Broadcom Releases Source Code for Drivers

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Submitted by I'm Not There (1956) on Thursday September 09, 2010 @03:03PM

I'm Not There (1956) writes: Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of Wi-Fi transceivers, open sources it's Linux device drivers. This is a big win for Linux users, as there are a lot of users that face Wi-Fi problems when they user Linux on their laptops. With this device drivers now open source, distributions can ship them out-of-the-box, and that means no Linux Wi-Fi problem for new devices and upcoming distributions at all.

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