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Talking with Timothy Miller

Posted by Hemos on from the get-to-know dept.

barryman_5000 writes "Timothy Miller has written plenty of drivers for the open source effort and now kerneltrap has an interview with him on his newest effort for an open graphic card. He talks about his background, struggle with secretive 3D vendors and more."

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  1. Re:It's not really their fault... by William_Lee · · Score: 1, Informative

    I guess /. has redefined the definition of "editor" and forgot to tell the rest of us.

    editor
    SYLLABICATION: editor
    PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: d-tr KEY
    NOUN: 1. One who edits, especially as an occupation.
    2. One who writes editorials.
    3. A device for editing film, consisting basically of a splicer and viewer.
    4. Computer Science A program used to edit text or data files.
    ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin ditor, publisher, from Latin ditus, past participle of dere, to publish. See edit.

    edit
    SYLLABICATION: edit
    PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: dt KEY
    TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: edited, editing, edits
    1a. To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting. b. To prepare an edition of for publication: edit a collection of short stories. c. To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable: edited her remarks for presentation to a younger audience.
    2. To supervise the publication of (a newspaper or magazine, for example).
    3. To assemble the components of (a film or soundtrack, for example), as by cutting and splicing.
    4. To eliminate; delete: edited the best scene out.

  2. Petition If you're planning on buying one of these by iplayfast · · Score: 2, Informative

    Make you visible to TS new open 3d videocard

    Let the company know what the demand is.

  3. It seems that the ignorance is yours! by Theovon · · Score: 2, Informative
    Contrary to what you say, this card is designed a priori to accelerate 3D graphics. The rendering engine is designed to be OpenGL compliant.

    It seems that you didn't read the article and have no idea what this project is all about. None. At all.