Open-Source 2D, 3D Drivers For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series 245
An anonymous reader writes "AMD has now rolled out open-source 2D and 3D drivers for their ATI Radeon HD 5000 series graphics processors. As described at length over at Phoronix, it's taken nearly a year to complete but there is now public code released that enables 2D, 3D, and video hardware-acceleration for this latest generation of ATI GPUs. For now this code is intended for developers and enthusiasts but with time it will make its way into stable Linux distribution updates. AMD's open-source developers are also beginning to work on ATI Radeon HD 6000 series support, which is hardware not to be released until late in the year."
I would have had the first post... (Score:5, Funny)
I would have had the first post, but I was waiting for my browser window to scroll.
Re:I would have had the first post... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No thanks (Score:2, Funny)
Next time a company screws you, please let us know. I want to know when to laugh.
Re:nVidia (Score:4, Funny)
Why? Unless the resulting drivers are actually better which remains to be seen, just the fact that they are open source is meaningless.
Now if someone can fix ATIs shitty OpenGL support, then I'd be all over it. But for right now this makes no difference.
They have phenomenal OpenGL support, just not for Linux.