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On Sat, 12 May 2007 19:12:07 +0100,
Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> AMD will deliver open graphics drivers
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>>| The open sourcing of graphics drivers will indeed be good news, but
>>| it's not a big surprise.
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>> http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/
>>
>> Those who play nice with Linux win.
>
> And will continue to win... Just as soon as there's a reasonable OpenGL
> open source card & driver out there, it'll be in my next PC and all
> those thereafter. I'm already sick of the little irritations in having
> to sync nVidia drivers with kernels - it feels too much like a Microsoft
> experience to be really fun.
I have one of Intels chipsets in my new laptop, it's a bit slow for
UT2004, but works great with OpenGL apps, and compiz etc. Slick and
smooth. The driver is OSS, and handled by the vendor (System76,
www.system76.com) as part of the normal update process of an ubuntu box.
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