First off, the driver for the Radeon will probably be none other than Gareth Hughes, one of the developers that wrote the Rage PRO driver. The quality of that driver is comparable to some of the better quality drivers for Windows (well... allowing for the Rage PRO- which is a lame chip compared to other chips...:-)
If the kernel interfaces change (which they do from time to time) Linus has already implied that they (the kernel team) are not going to shed a single tear for those vendors that produce binary only drivers. The official take is that while they're not excluded, they are unsupported by the development community.
Either the company in question is going to be willing to pony up the resources to keep up with the kernel development (an ambitious task- but NVidia seems to be willing at this point in time...) or open the source and the technical details to be able to fix the same. While they're making that decision, they should understand that unless there's some magic mojo involved in their tech, they're not going to benefit at all from opening the source and tech data. They should also realize that if they have some special magic that it's VERY likely that a potential competitor would be reverse engineering the stuff and unless the company in question has patents on the software and hardware, there's going to be clones and knock-offs eventually (rather soon, I'd suspect...). Plainly speaking, security of "IP" through obscurity is no security at all. It's almost totally in their best interests to open it all up.
Not due to software. Seems to me that this would have happened to just about any OS and any HW combo save something rather grotesquely expensive like massively redundant, clustered servers.
In other words, go troll somewhere else loser- you don't even know what you're talking about.
PC Mag's guilty of using an OLD version of an OS (Hey, they've shown themselves to be that clueless before in the past- why not continue the trend?:-)
Anyhow, the SPECweb figures are due to a machine that appears to have been running the pre 2.4 kernel, the Red Hat RawHide, and a nifty little high-performance web server called TUX that they GPLed that seems to outperform most of the stuff out there. Tidbit about TUX- it's a kernel extention not unlike the KNFS server.
I don't think the NYT is at fault for this; however, the CIA operative that let a PDF file out with soft redactions, he ought to be drawn and quartered. Since the redactions are merely annotations added to a file as an afterthought, they can be removed so long as the file has a public file format. Worse, you rely on the imaging software to do the right thing under all conditions- the whole mess is really unsuitable for anything confidential, let alone Eyes Only level Top Secret.
Ted Nelson started on hyperlinking (In fact, he came up with the term in the first place!) in 1960 and had been attempting to develop it with micropayments since that time- hit www.xanadu.net for details of the history.
Ted Nelson coined the term. Ted Nelson attempted a more audacious version with micropayments, etc. starting in 1960. This predates the patent grant by over 20 years!
If memory serves, if Troll Tech gets bought, the QPL ceases to cover the free Qt version and BSD licensing takes over for it. If this is still the case, perhaps we could sweet-talk one of the major vendors for Linux stuff (say Red Hat, VA Linux, SGI, or IBM, for example...) to buy Troll Tech and turn them into an extended support organization for Qt, etc.
This is not meant to cast aspersions on the Troll Tech people- they've come up with a winning toolset and they're not too unreasonable about the licensing for commercial, etc usages outside of the QPL. I just think it'd be one of the quickest ways out of what's beginning to pan out to be an otherwise unsolvable mess.
Ogg is a generic answer to streaming/compressed multimedia. Ogg was developed by Monty and Co. to answer a need and to do Quicktime "right". Currently, they're working on audio compression; soon they plan on working on video codecs as well.
The latest Simon the Sorceror sequal is in 3D...
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Another tidbit is that they used NetImmerse, which runs under Linux... I'm off to ask them about a Linux version of that game.
102's not that bad for the average person, for an elderly person, perhaps it could be something of a problem. And I don't think they sucker punched Garbus- the testimony has things that I'm afraid wouldn't be believable unless Valenti was suffering from delerium because of the fever (in which, the deposition would be re-taken). So which is it, was he just really too sick to give the deposition and we need to take it over or is he feeding everyone a line (which would mean he just purjored himself...)?
Many of the work involved with acceleration is the same no matter WHAT the windowing environment is, whether it's MS Windows, X Windows, Berlin, etc.
It's just going to take work from the people doing the current space of drivers to migrate the stuff to the FBDev or KGI specific driver set (since, Berlin is using GGI and for peak performance, you'd be using FBDev or KGI for rendering layer work...). Honestly, this might not be a bad thing- we need some thin kernel layer (more than just DRI) to manage the details of the display adapter properly so that something dinking with the display won't take out the OS. XFree86 4.0's a major improvement, but it's not enough. We need better than even that.
For the home user desktop, it might not be needed, but for someone trying to do low-end server stuff or doing development work, every drop of speed counts. I switched from an ATA-66 drive to two Ultra2 SCSI drives because the ATA-66 drive just wasn't powerful enough when I pushed it doing development work on it.
Of course, it's the low-grade answer for 3D- but lots of people have 'em. In the case of the RAGE Pro, it's drop the drivers into the right directory (can easily be done by an installer) and make one mod to your XFree86 config file to add the GLX module (also doable by an installer...). After that, it's one restart of X away from OpenGL acceleration. It does many things well enough to be acceptable and allow you to play games like Quake 3 at speeds equal to or better than under Windows.
Just wait until XFree86 4.0 gets more drivers- it'll be the same story for any of them done by PI or the Utah-GLX team.
Since it's an official, supported version of Quake 3: Arena, you're going to have to buy the Linux version, as if that's all you're running. Hey, it's not like it's not available and reasonably priced and packaged special (it appears that all copies of the Linux edition are in the special edition tin... (If I were petty, I'd be about rubbing a silly Software,ETC manager's nose in that fact!)).
I did it- it's not all that bad and you're rewarding Id for a job well done. When ya get to brass tacks, so should you.
...register level info for the open source community or rolls drivers (open or proprietary) themselves. Without info forthcoming from either the originator of the chip or the new owners, it's going to be a very cold day in Hell before someone comes up with support proper for the Savage2000.
Interpretation- that's all.
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And it's a wrong one. All past precedents indicate that they are DEAD WRONG in that regard.
Considering that up until recently, I could get into it just fine (I'm on the dev list for Vorbis, lurking- it's very promising...) . Keep trying at it if you're willing to deal with something that is still, when you get down to brass tacks, alpha code.
Instead, envision a live-action Heavy Metal comic.
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The Fith Element is pulled (with permission, of course) from a Moebius story right out of Heavy Metal, the magazine.
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First off, the driver for the Radeon will probably be none other than Gareth Hughes, one of the developers that wrote the Rage PRO driver. The quality of that driver is comparable to some of the better quality drivers for Windows (well... allowing for the Rage PRO- which is a lame chip compared to other chips... :-)
Arrgh... I botched that.
/. before consuming mass quantities of caffene!! :-)
They will benefit from an opening of the info and driver source.
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If the kernel interfaces change (which they do from time to time) Linus has already implied that they (the kernel team) are not going to shed a single tear for those vendors that produce binary only drivers. The official take is that while they're not excluded, they are unsupported by the development community.
Either the company in question is going to be willing to pony up the resources to keep up with the kernel development (an ambitious task- but NVidia seems to be willing at this point in time...) or open the source and the technical details to be able to fix the same. While they're making that decision, they should understand that unless there's some magic mojo involved in their tech, they're not going to benefit at all from opening the source and tech data. They should also realize that if they have some special magic that it's VERY likely that a potential competitor would be reverse engineering the stuff and unless the company in question has patents on the software and hardware, there's going to be clones and knock-offs eventually (rather soon, I'd suspect...). Plainly speaking, security of "IP" through obscurity is no security at all. It's almost totally in their best interests to open it all up.
Not due to software. Seems to me that this would have happened to just about any OS and any HW combo save something rather grotesquely expensive like massively redundant, clustered servers.
In other words, go troll somewhere else loser- you don't even know what you're talking about.
PC Mag's guilty of using an OLD version of an OS (Hey, they've shown themselves to be that clueless before in the past- why not continue the trend? :-)
Anyhow, the SPECweb figures are due to a machine that appears to have been running the pre 2.4 kernel, the Red Hat RawHide, and a nifty little high-performance web server called TUX that they GPLed that seems to outperform most of the stuff out there. Tidbit about TUX- it's a kernel extention not unlike the KNFS server.
I don't think the NYT is at fault for this; however, the CIA operative that let a PDF file out with soft redactions, he ought to be drawn and quartered. Since the redactions are merely annotations added to a file as an afterthought, they can be removed so long as the file has a public file format. Worse, you rely on the imaging software to do the right thing under all conditions- the whole mess is really unsuitable for anything confidential, let alone Eyes Only level Top Secret.
It's chock full of Adams' dry wit- not to mention being a decent graphical adventure.
And you've got the name of the book he published right too. This is going down in flames.
Ted Nelson started on hyperlinking (In fact, he came up with the term in the first place!) in 1960 and had been attempting to develop it with micropayments since that time- hit www.xanadu.net for details of the history.
Ted Nelson coined the term. Ted Nelson attempted a more audacious version with micropayments, etc. starting in 1960. This predates the patent grant by over 20 years!
BT's in for a nasty surprise.
If memory serves, if Troll Tech gets bought, the QPL ceases to cover the free Qt version and BSD licensing takes over for it. If this is still the case, perhaps we could sweet-talk one of the major vendors for Linux stuff (say Red Hat, VA Linux, SGI, or IBM, for example...) to buy Troll Tech and turn them into an extended support organization for Qt, etc.
This is not meant to cast aspersions on the Troll Tech people- they've come up with a winning toolset and they're not too unreasonable about the licensing for commercial, etc usages outside of the QPL. I just think it'd be one of the quickest ways out of what's beginning to pan out to be an otherwise unsolvable mess.
From what I understand of what I've read on the dev list, someone's already done an alpha WinAmp plugin for it. This is going to happen.
Ogg is a generic answer to streaming/compressed multimedia. Ogg was developed by Monty and Co. to answer a need and to do Quicktime "right". Currently, they're working on audio compression; soon they plan on working on video codecs as well.
Another tidbit is that they used NetImmerse, which runs under Linux... I'm off to ask them about a Linux version of that game.
102's not that bad for the average person, for an elderly person, perhaps it could be something of a problem. And I don't think they sucker punched Garbus- the testimony has things that I'm afraid wouldn't be believable unless Valenti was suffering from delerium because of the fever (in which, the deposition would be re-taken). So which is it, was he just really too sick to give the deposition and we need to take it over or is he feeding everyone a line (which would mean he just purjored himself...)?
Many of the work involved with acceleration is the same no matter WHAT the windowing environment is, whether it's MS Windows, X Windows, Berlin, etc.
It's just going to take work from the people doing the current space of drivers to migrate the stuff to the FBDev or KGI specific driver set (since, Berlin is using GGI and for peak performance, you'd be using FBDev or KGI for rendering layer work...). Honestly, this might not be a bad thing- we need some thin kernel layer (more than just DRI) to manage the details of the display adapter properly so that something dinking with the display won't take out the OS. XFree86 4.0's a major improvement, but it's not enough. We need better than even that.
I've not seen it- and I've not quite seen a movie yet that has generated this much antipathy for it.
Whooo...I think I'm ever so glad that I didn't go to see it.
(Damn shame for Travolta, too- he'd just shucked off the stigma from the last bad role he had back years ago.)
For the home user desktop, it might not be needed, but for someone trying to do low-end server stuff or doing development work, every drop of speed counts. I switched from an ATA-66 drive to two Ultra2 SCSI drives because the ATA-66 drive just wasn't powerful enough when I pushed it doing development work on it.
Of course, it's the low-grade answer for 3D- but lots of people have 'em. In the case of the RAGE Pro, it's drop the drivers into the right directory (can easily be done by an installer) and make one mod to your XFree86 config file to add the GLX module (also doable by an installer...). After that, it's one restart of X away from OpenGL acceleration. It does many things well enough to be acceptable and allow you to play games like Quake 3 at speeds equal to or better than under Windows.
Just wait until XFree86 4.0 gets more drivers- it'll be the same story for any of them done by PI or the Utah-GLX team.
Since it's an official, supported version of Quake 3: Arena, you're going to have to buy the Linux version, as if that's all you're running. Hey, it's not like it's not available and reasonably priced and packaged special (it appears that all copies of the Linux edition are in the special edition tin... (If I were petty, I'd be about rubbing a silly Software,ETC manager's nose in that fact!)).
I did it- it's not all that bad and you're rewarding Id for a job well done. When ya get to brass tacks, so should you.
...register level info for the open source community or rolls drivers (open or proprietary) themselves. Without info forthcoming from either the originator of the chip or the new owners, it's going to be a very cold day in Hell before someone comes up with support proper for the Savage2000.
And it's a wrong one. All past precedents indicate that they are DEAD WRONG in that regard.
Just did a CVS checkout from work and it got in and did the pull just fine.
Considering that up until recently, I could get into it just fine (I'm on the dev list for Vorbis, lurking- it's very promising...) . Keep trying at it if you're willing to deal with something that is still, when you get down to brass tacks, alpha code.
The Fith Element is pulled (with permission, of course) from a Moebius story right out of Heavy Metal, the magazine.
Heavy Metal- the American equivalent of Manga.