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AMD Promises Open Source Graphics Drivers

Posted by Zonk on from the feel-the-love-linux-gamers dept.

MoxFulder writes "Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales, has promised to deliver open-source drivers for ATI graphics cards (recently acquired by AMD) at the recent Red Hat Summit. A series of good news for proponents of open-source device drivers. In the last year, Intel, the leading provider of integrated graphics cards, has opened their drivers as well. But ATI and NVidia, the only two players in the market for high-performance discrete graphics cards, have so far released only closed-source drivers for their cards. This has created numerous compatibility, stability, and ethical problems for users of Linux and other open source OSes, and prompted projects like Nouveau to try and reverse-engineer NVidia drivers. Hopefully AMD's decision will put pressure on NVidia to release open-source drivers as well!"

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  1. Dual head by markov_chain · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now there's something to do if you had a million dollars.

    --
    Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
  2. Re:Nice by timelorde · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about that optical mouse you're using?

    [looks down...]

    Logitech.

    [looks over at the 'ol Windows98 box...]

    Logitech.

    [goes downstairs, looks at wife's laptop...]

    Logitech.

    'Nuff said.