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."

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[bobintetley]

WHY is it that every time I post a comment some total tool mods me overrated? It was a relevant comment to the discussion, one I think many people share (we're sick of there being no decent 3D cards with non-proprietary *nix drivers).

Whoever gave me that overrated mod. Fuck you, I hope you get cancer you power-drunk knob-jockey.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Many of us are than a fractiO8 And as BSD sinks another troubled