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Archive for November 30th, 2007

RadeonHD 1.0 Released

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The first release version of the RadeonHD driver, the open-source driver for AMD (ATI) video cards, has just been released, according to Phoronix. Although the driver lacks many of the features of other drivers, the development has been moving rapidly and, hopefully, a new version with some of these features will be released soon.

This 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 most of the development, which may be why the process has gone quite fast.

Now that we have seen the results of AMD’s work with the open-source community, the question is: what about Nvidia?

Further reading: X.Org Wiki PageĀ