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[News] Adobe and NVIDIA Finally Treat Linux Better

  • Subject: [News] Adobe and NVIDIA Finally Treat Linux Better
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:59:41 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Flash Player Update Adds HD Video Support

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| And Linux users, hang on to your hats, Adobe has updated the Linux version of 
| Flash Player 9 concurrently with the Windows and Mac versions. Full screen 
| playback was a bit stuttery in Ubuntu compared with that on my Mac (both 
| using Firefox), but otherwise it functioned identically, which should be 
| great news for Linux users who’ve often felt like second class Flash citizens 
| in the past. [Update: I should point out the Flash Player 9 is still only 
| available for 32 bit Linux.]      
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/12/flash-player-up.html

NVIDIA XRender Performance Improved

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| Towards the middle of last month, NVIDIA had released the 169.04 Beta Linux 
| Driver. The change-log was quite lengthy and what we had discovered while 
| benchmarking the GeForce 8 series was that there were improvements to be 
| found in this release and it was far more than a simple version bump.    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=934&num=1


Related:

Why Flash 9 for Linux is taking so long

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| The good news is that, going forward, Linux shouldn't be out of sync
| with other platforms again. Betlem says that Adobe is planning to
| "simultaneously deliver Windows, Mac, Linux in unison. It's not our
| intention to have a delta between ship dates" for Flash 10.
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/21/2138216&from=rss


Flash Player 9 Update

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| This update, codenamed “Moviestar,” includes new features, enhancements and 
| bug fixes for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux versions of Flash Player 9, 
| including:  
| 
|     * Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.
|     * Multi-core support for vector rendering.
|     * Full screen mode with hardware scaling.
|     * Flash Player cache for common platform components, such as the Flex 
|       framework.
|     * Support for Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) in the Windows 
|       plug-in. 
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http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/


Could AMD move open desktop Linux market?

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| AMD’s recent move to fully support open source graphics could be the best 
| news desktop Linux has had in a long time. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1427


NVIDIA 169.04 Driver Brings Improvements

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| Most notably, with the NVIDIA 100.14.19 driver with a GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 
| we found major performance gains. With the NVIDIA 169.04 Beta driver we have 
| once again found significant performance improvements for the GeForce 8 
| series on Linux. While there were no improvements with the GeForce 8600GT in  
| Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, the improvements were very noticeable in Doom 3 
| and Quake 4. This updated Linux driver has also corrected some monitor issues  
| we previously had with incorrectly parsing the EDID information and other 
| bugs.      
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=925&num=1


NVIDIA: Got Specifications?

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| This past week AMD raised the Linux graphics bar by not only announcing their 
| new fglrx graphics driver, which delivers Radeon HD 2000 support, immense 
| performance improvements, and AIGLX, but it was accompanied by an 
| announcement that they will be delivering specifications to the X.Org 
| development community. These two announcements came after intense work 
| internally at AMD and over a long period of time, but literally overnight it 
| changed the minds of many Linux users on how they judge this company with its 
| once notorious binary blob. AMD has really set a precedence for showing that 
| a semiconductor company once criticized to no end with their proprietary 
| software can update their views to assist and embrace the open-source Linux 
| community while remaining competitive as a company in a triopoloy market. 
| They have also thus reaffirmed that Linux is a viable desktop operating 
| system. But the ball has now landed in NVIDIA's court. NVIDIA can either play 
| ball by pushing forward with a similar effort, and then all of the big three  
| GPU manufacturers would be cradling an open-source strategy, or they may find 
| themselves in trouble down the road.              
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=831&num=1

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