Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers

PeterBrett writes "Intel's Keith Packard announced earlier today that Intel was open sourcing graphics drivers for their new 965 Express Chipset family graphics controllers. From the announcement: 'Designed to support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset family includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders. By open sourcing the drivers for this new technology, Intel enables the open source community to experiment, develop, and contribute to the continuing advancement of open source 3D graphics.' The new drivers, available from the Linux Graphics Drivers from Intel website, are licensed under the GPL for Linux kernel drivers, and MIT license for XOrg 2D & 3D rendering subsystems."

Comments

For verily I say unto you....

[Savage-Rabbit]

Fantastic. Great work Intel.....

....even as you rejoice at the fact he may at last have seen the light of the true faith, be watchful and suspicions! Never forget the words of the bearded prophet that bears the mark of the sacred GNU: "The Antichrist is sly and caniving ......"

Re:For verily I say unto you....

[Savage-Rabbit]

Caniving? WTF does that mean, biting something

No, it's a comparatively common spelling error of the word 'conniving'. But then you knew that already. Now be a good boy and go do something constructive like suing me for assaulting your sense of grammatical perfection.

Re:Happy now?

[ivan256]

Read the entire thread. This isn't the only post like that. It's not the correct, or informative posts that are modded up. It's the cheerleader/fanboy posts.

It's a symptom of the fact that 99% of the people reading this article simultaniously know practically nothing about what they're talking about, and think they are experts.

Normal people use one screen only.

[jotaeleemeese]

Markets are not geared towards snobs...