Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Saturday 12 August 2006

... or Closed Source AMDATI

ATI people retract the open sourcing rumors by AMD. Will that turn into a "division war"? Looks much like the Java open sourcing saga...

I let you make your opinion.

Update: and Aaron has some thought

Wednesday 9 August 2006

Open Source ATIMD ?

AMD is considering open sourcing former-ATI graphics drivers, at least a large part. Taken from kernelslacker.

If that is true, I can only congratulate AMD to make the right choice, or at least a good step forward in the right direction. Given AMD's help for open source support of their 64-bits platform, it sounds logical.

Saturday 5 August 2006

ThinkPad with preloaded Linux, but non-Free drivers?

miguel: doesn't that ThinkPad T60p require the proprietary ATI driver for the FireGL V5200? Doesn't that proprietary X driver require proprietary kernel modules that are in disagreement with the kernel license according to some key Linux contributors? Does this go together with the decision of Novell to no longer ship the proprietary kernel modules with their distributions[1]?

Notes

[1] decision I clearly respect