CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
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!" Read more of this story at Slashdot. --------- ------------------ "Oh, bother," said the Borg. "We've assimilated Pooh." "Socialism works great... if there are no people involved." -- Pastor David Ginter, Union Church of Guatemala. |
Lazarus Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
Good news.. if they actually do it.  (With big companies you never know...) |
bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
i wish more major companies would make open source drivers. such as wireless network devices(this would be great!). then linux would be that much better, increasing it's compatibility. ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
about time ------------------ |
