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nVidia Posts First Linux Graphics Drivers for Opteron
Brian Stretch writes "nVidia posted the first publically available Linux graphics drivers for the Athlon 64 (aka Hammer series) on their website today. There are updates for the lesser x86 and IA64 architectures as well. Now, if only the Athlon 64 and Opteron boards and CPUs themselves were publically available, or is AMD's developer program sending out more of these things than I know? (If so, gimme!) I guess I'll have to tough it out with my mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation for now (heh heh heh)."
In related news, an anonymous reader writes "The new AMD Opteron servers designed by Newisys are using embedded Linux for system management. This allows remote management via web browser or ssh to examine processor state, switch power on/off, regulate processor power states and fan speeds, update BIOS firmware, etc. See the docs for more info!"
I'm posting with on my 386. (I lost a stupid, stupid, stupid bet. All you need to know is it involved beer, a kite and more beer.)
Of course, it was a learning experience getting this thing hooked up to the campus lan.
nbfn
NO no no no no, you got it all wrong......amateurs. Sit down before you hurt yourself.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA
Linux drives you.
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all weekend.
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
I'm sick of these mindless "funny" posts -granted, some of them _are_ funny- dissing Soviet Russia, while the "land of the free" is slowly turning into a fully legislated police state under the guise of Homeland Security (that is HomSec in newspeak). Write to your senator right now... yeah right, so he can put another bill up and look good in public? Get some free karma points with Joe Public with _your_ brilliant idea? Whatever... /. visitor for more than 3 years now, thank you very much - but it seems to me that now most posters are more concerned with being modded funny than enlightening the other readers with a well-tought out personal perspective on any given subject, and I think most of the "older" members would agree with me on this.
I know this is Off-Topic and I don't mean to rant but PUH-LEASE stop this.
/. used to be a fun forum with great posts and intelligent discussions - I've been a
Bottom line: if you have nothing sensible to bring to this wonderful forum (I still read it for the interesting views that I fortunately still encounter in almost every article discussion), then don't post at all. Please don't think of me as boring, I do like the funny posts, but the balance seems to be gone.
Now I'm just glad I got this off my mind - I'll go out to some friends now telling them I got modded interesting on a Beowulf Cluster of First Posts regarding Natalie Portman with the content of the slashdotted site copied into the message for karma-whoring (did I get them all?).
Yours truly
Sander
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
you're probably just trying to compensate for a lack of computing power by having an enormous dong.
i could live a little longer in this prison
n/t!