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XGI, VIA Release Open Source Drivers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pretty-pictures dept.

An anonymous reader writes "XGI has announced the release of open source drivers for its Volari family of graphics adapters. Efforts at X.Org to merge the new code into the head branch are already underway. Almost simultaneously, VIA has announced the immediate release of open source drivers for S3 Graphics UniChrome, VIA ProSavage and ProSavage DDR. Could these moves signal the beginning of a period of rapid improvement in Free drivers for video cards?"

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  1. Suggestion on a new moderation type by ergo98 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot needs a new moderation type - "Potentially Insightful Answers". This moderation class should +1 a post, however whenever any child post is given +1 Insightful, the parent should have 1 point removed (to a minimum of 1). So if someone asks "Where in Soviet Russia can I find Natalie Portman's hot grits?", they can be moderated up to give visibility to potential answeres. However once someone answers the question, they are moderated up at the cost of the original post.

    As it is, it's a tried-and-true karma whoring technique of asking an obvious, every-wants-to-know question as quickly as possible. Every moderator that wants to know the answer will mod it up, hoping that truly insightful/informative people will come along and see it. Yet the question itself isn't insightful/informative whatsoever, and is usually a very cheap post.

    1. Re:Suggestion on a new moderation type by ergo98 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      As an aside, I realize that the OP was an AC (and thus theoretically can't be a karma whore), yet the motivation is still there - even as an AC a lot of people will revisit to feel a sense of pride that their post was Score: 5. This is the same reason that Karma: Excellent posters still like seeing mod ups.

  2. Re:What do they have to lose? [OT] by LocoBurger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You actually put the difference between their/there/they're in your sig, but you get loose/lose wrong? Come on...