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Gentoo Linux has posted a report that claims there is an bug in the Athlon processor family (affecting Athlon, AthlonXP, MP, and Duron) that prevents the chip from using Extended Paging when AGP is also in use.

A quick check of the MS Knowledge Base and the AMD website reveals easy access to a solution but not much data about the cause of the problem.

The article, overall, is useful and I recommend checking it out if you re a Linux user having trouble on an AMD system, but the author makes one comment I find simply absurd:

"Here s something that s even more unsettling -- consider what kind of Linux users actually use AGP. That s right -- desktop users. And in what area has Linux been struggling? Yes, the desktop. One wonders how many negative desktop Linux experiences have resulted from this unfortunate problem."

Probably not too many. In order for the above to be applicable, it would have to be shown that the majority of Linux desktop users are also AMD users.

Furthermore, it ignores some basic facts about the OS market. The reason Linux is struggling on the desktop is because not one OEM offers it as a primary OS. Some DO offer it as a secondary alternative (a positive step) but none of the Top 10 OEM s sell Linux as a primary system.

Furthermore, Linux still has a reputation for being difficult to use. From what I understand, the OS has come a very long way in recent years but it will have to come further still before the mass market will embrace it.

Finally, there is the simple fact that most computer users are barely literate about computers at all. Having learned to operate on OS at the minimal level in which to function they are completely intimidated and unwilling to learn another product.

There is a desktop, enthusiast market for Linux. One day, there may be a desktop non-enthusiast market for it as well. But until the day when Linux overcomes its own reputation as a fringe OS as well as the technical ignorance of the vast majority of computer "users" it will not be a mainstream desktop product.

This is not a defense of a Linux bug--clearly AMD has a problem they need to address--but blaming the low acceptance of Linux on AMD is a rather foolish thing to do--there are much larger causes.