RadeonHD 1.0.0 Driver Released
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| Now that the RadeonHD 1.0.0 driver is out the door, the Novell developers are
| looking forward to adding more features again (hopefully this will be
| accompanied by additional AMD documentation being released to the public).
| More information is available on the RadeonHD Wiki.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=931&num=1
Goal: Dell FREEDOM Box - A Fully Open System for Home Users by 2010
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| Set a goal of having at least one fully open system for home users by the end
| of 2010! This would be Dell's greatest endeavor yet!
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http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/75307/Goal_Dell_FREEDOM_Box__A_Fully_Open_System_for_Home_Users_by_2010
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Open-Source Developers Speak Out About AMD
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| Daniel Stone had also mentioned that in less than ten hours of the
| specifications being available, GPU specifications were downloaded from the
| X.Org server over 70,000 times and ate up more than 1.3 terabytes of
| bandwidth!
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=838&num=1
Could AMD move open desktop Linux market?
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| AMD’s recent move to fully support open source graphics could be the best
| news desktop Linux has had in a long time.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1427
NVIDIA: Got Specifications?
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| This past week AMD raised the Linux graphics bar by not only announcing their
| new fglrx graphics driver, which delivers Radeon HD 2000 support, immense
| performance improvements, and AIGLX, but it was accompanied by an
| announcement that they will be delivering specifications to the X.Org
| development community. These two announcements came after intense work
| internally at AMD and over a long period of time, but literally overnight it
| changed the minds of many Linux users on how they judge this company with its
| once notorious binary blob. AMD has really set a precedence for showing that
| a semiconductor company once criticized to no end with their proprietary
| software can update their views to assist and embrace the open-source Linux
| community while remaining competitive as a company in a triopoloy market.
| They have also thus reaffirmed that Linux is a viable desktop operating
| system. But the ball has now landed in NVIDIA's court. NVIDIA can either play
| ball by pushing forward with a similar effort, and then all of the big three
| GPU manufacturers would be cradling an open-source strategy, or they may find
| themselves in trouble down the road.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=831&num=1
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