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5 Things You Can Do to Put Linux in the Driver Seat

Thursday, 01 October 2009 08:29 DaniWeb

This is a plea hardware manufacturers: Please create Linux drivers for your hardware. OK, so Linux isn't the Stormin' Norman of the Desktop arena but that doesn't mean its users don't want or need drivers for hardware.

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AMD R600/700 2D Performance: Open vs. Closed Drivers

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:00 Phoronix

While the ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics cards were introduced last week, the open-source support for the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series is finally maturing.

While the ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics cards were introduced last week, the open-source support for the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series is finally maturing. The Linux 2.6.32 kernel will feature kernel mode-setting support for these ATI R600/700 graphics processors as well as the DRM support for allo...

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NVIDIA Publicly Releases Its OpenCL Linux Drivers

Monday, 28 September 2009 08:34 Phoronix

It's been no secret that NVIDIA has been working on an OpenCL Linux driver for their graphics processors just as AMD has been doing, but up until now their beta drivers were only available to registered NVIDIA developers.

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Linux Driver Chief Calls Out Microsoft Over Its Driver Code Submission

Thursday, 10 September 2009 11:05 ComputerWorld

After a kick in the pants from the leader of the Linux driver project, Microsoft has resumed work on its historic driver code submission to the Linux kernel and avoided having the code pulled from the open source operating system.

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