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Next Linux Kernel Due Early March

Posted by timothy on from the that's-what-I-call-a-public-good dept.

swandives writes "The Linux.conf.au is in full-swing in Wellington, New Zealand, and Computerworld Australia has an interview with Jon Corbet in the leadup to his Kernel Report. The latest kernel release is due early March and will include reversed-engineered drivers for Nvidia chipsets."

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  1. Re:Year of the linux desktop by sjalexander · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah, but it's 7 PM tomorrow, so it doesn't count.

  2. 3D by Lord+Lode · · Score: 5, Funny

    If those NVidia drivers don't support hardware accelerated 3D, then I really don't understand the point. 3D hardware acceleration is 15 years old. Linux is an operating system that should be at the frontline of technology. Working in the dark ages of pre-3D acceleration, the times of Motif GUI's, should be far past us. How can something that ignores such an important part of the graphics card, almost half the computation power of the whole computer is there, be accepted?

    If they do support 3D, then congratulations, ignore my post above :)