Good News from AMD

jwh400 · 05-13-2007

AMD Promises Open Source Graphics Drivers

From Slashdot
By MoxFulder

"Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales, has promised to deliver open-source drivers for ATI graphics cards..."

Read article here.

It would certainly be nice if nVidea became a little more Linux friendly.

hessiess · 05-13-2007

amd cards might actualy become usfal!

nonewmsgs · 05-13-2007

yes indeed that is good news. damn shame that they need to make another k6 in order to compete with intel.

UbuntuniX · 05-13-2007

Great, but haven't AMD dumped OpenGL recently?

zenwhen · 05-13-2007

Very good news.

sqwishy · 05-14-2007

W00T W00T! This is awsome! Intel already has open-source graphics drivers so no doubt that nvidia will do that soon too!

05-13-2007	#1 (permalink)
jwh400 Commentator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Indiana U.S.A. Posts: 30	Good News from AMD AMD Promises Open Source Graphics Drivers From Slashdot By MoxFulder "Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales, has promised to deliver open-source drivers for ATI graphics cards..." Read article here. It would certainly be nice if nVidea became a little more Linux friendly.
	The Build finetune Linux Commands

05-13-2007	#2 (permalink)
hessiess open software rules!!!!!!!!!!! Join Date: May 2007 Location: chepstow-uk Posts: 162	Re: Good News from AMD amd cards might actualy become usfal!

05-13-2007	#3 (permalink)
nonewmsgs Commentator Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 49	Re: Good News from AMD yes indeed that is good news. damn shame that they need to make another k6 in order to compete with intel.
nonewmsgs Commentator Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 49

05-13-2007	#4 (permalink)
UbuntuniX Stoner Hippie Join Date: May 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 160	Re: Good News from AMD Great, but haven't AMD dumped OpenGL recently?
	Cyber-Phreaks I <3 My Ubuntu!

05-13-2007	#5 (permalink)
zenwhen Interested participant Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 17	Re: Good News from AMD Very good news.

05-14-2007	#6 (permalink)
sqwishy Be gentle, newcomer Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1	Re: Good News from AMD W00T W00T! This is awsome! Intel already has open-source graphics drivers so no doubt that nvidia will do that soon too!
sqwishy Be gentle, newcomer Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1