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Open-source AMD (ATI) video drivers - Finally!

Linux.com got some fairly official information from AMD about their new open-source ATi video drivers. They plan to release specifications and code to the open source community and claim they will continue to work with the open source community. They are working with Novell right now, but they say this is just to get started.

Press Release

Nvidia and Intel drivers are already avaliable and for the most part work well, so if AMD (ATI) drivers were released video cards could become yet another thing you don’t have to worry with Linux.

Update: Mark Shuttleworth, the leader/founder of Ubuntu, shared his thoughts about AMD’s drivers with Phoronix. Basically, he liked what they had done a lot, but go check out the story.

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  1. The Linux Loop News Blog » Blog Archive » RadeonHD 1.0 Released Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    [...] driver is the result of AMD releasing specifications and code for their video cards to Novell and the rest of the opens-source community. Novell is still doing [...]

  2. Daniel Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Open-source AMD (ATI) video drivers - Finally!, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

  3. InTheLoop Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    What parts did you not understand?

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