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What price Freedom?
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| Graphics drivers (for X11 under whatever Free
| Software operating system you care to use) are
| one area where Free Software has plenty of room
| for improvement. My laptop has an nVidia
| GeForce 9600M in it, which means that there are
| two drivers I can use for it: the Free Software
| nv driver, or the proprietary nvidia one.
|
| [...]
|
| Non-idle the machine draws just as much:
| clearly regular end-user activities (writing
| email, writing letters, writing blog entres,
| but no compiling) donât exactly stress the
| machine or draw extra power. Given the numbers,
| I donât understand the perceived difference in
| temperature or comfort of working on the
| machine. But it does help me put a price on
| Freedom: two watts.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=489
Recent:
AMD Releases OpenCL ATI GPU Support For Linux
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| AMD has released the fourth beta of the ATI
| Stream SDK 2.0, which provides a complete
| OpenCL development platform with OpenCL ATI
| GPU support for the ATI Radeon HD 4000/5000
| series. Besides running OpenCL on the GPU,
| this ATI SDK also supports running OpenCL
| on SSE3-capable, multi-core CPUs from both
| AMD and Intel too. The ATI Stream SDK is
| available for x86 and x86_64 Linux, with
| OpenSuSE 11.0 and Ubuntu 9.04 being
| officially supported.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzYwOA
AMD Updates Its R500 3D Programming Guide
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| While at the same time as churning out the
| R600/700 3D code and beginning to work on the
| R800 2D/mode-setting code, AMD's open-source
| developers have released an updated R500 3D
| programming guide.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzYxMA
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