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usertests AMD's defense on its community forums has also not landed well. The company claimed that 70% of Vivado users are on Windows anyway, alienating the academic researchers, engineering students, and open-source hobbyists who heavily favor Linux-native environments and rely on free tools to learn the trade. That's a big Linux share, not the usual 1-5%. AMD's forum representative confirmed they were "collecting all the feedback received and passing on to the relevant team/marketing" at AMD, leaving the door ajar for a possible change to this policy down the line. That's how it works with AMD. You shout at them until they undo their latest dumb decision. Reply
gamerk316 usertests said: That's a big Linux share, not the usual 1-5%. While I am not in any way a Linux fanboy, the use of Linux in the aerospace industry (where Xilinx now AMD found its footing) has a much higher then average use of Linux. Reply
LordVile usertests said: That's a big Linux share, not the usual 1-5%. That's how it works with AMD. You shout at them until they undo their latest dumb decision. It’s used more in research due to increased performance on bespoke software. I dual booted Linux at university as it significantly sped up the molecular modelling software they used. Reply
qxp Disappointing. It would be better to use open source tools, of course. Is the bitstream format still proprietary? Reply
suryasans AMD is becoming another bad guy for Linux community. Well, it's a corporate greed as usual. Reply
cp0x It's a bit weird how people feel entitled to get other people's work for free. This is a stupid and unnecessary change by AMD, but that doesn't negate the fact that it's still a bit weird that people feel entitled to get other people's work for free. Reply
JakobsenCph This is so off – FPGA and the free entry level stuff for the small FPGA from AMD – is the direct path for a career in digital design and chip design. And as the industry and AMD need our next generation to do chip design. I do not get the point. I have done chip design for 30 year – we use Linux for very obvious reasons – and the faster we get student on Linux the faster we get a new god chip designer. I would never point any student in the direction of any of the onetime use vender lockin platforms. We have much cheaper FPGA dev board like Tanknano 9k/20k that is fully supported by the Linux foundation back open source tools like Yosys and Nextpnr. Reply
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