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[News] AMD's GPU Specifications Downloaded Over 70,000 Times Within Hours

  • Subject: [News] AMD's GPU Specifications Downloaded Over 70,000 Times Within Hours
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:11:14 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Open-Source Developers Speak Out About AMD

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| Daniel Stone had also mentioned that in less than ten hours of the 
| specifications being available, GPU specifications were downloaded from the 
| X.Org server over 70,000 times and ate up more than 1.3 terabytes of 
| bandwidth!   
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=838&num=1


Related:

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


AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

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| Ending off the X Developer Summit this year, Matthew Tippett handed off ATI's 
| GPU specifications to David Airlie on a CD (as reported by Daniel Stone). 
| However, the specifications are also now available on the Internet!  
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA1Mw


AMD 8.41.7 Display Driver

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| This driver does not support AIGLX for Beryl or Compiz, but that support will 
| finally arrive next month with fglrx 8.42. Linux 2.6.23 kernel support for 
| the fglrx driver will hopefully arrive next month as well.  
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=833&num=1


AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview

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| Whether you are using a Radeon X300 purchased a few years ago or the Radeon 
| X1950PRO, the 8.41 driver is noticeably faster. How much faster? In many 
| cases it is about 50% faster while in some configurations it may go as high 
| as 90% or more. In fact, in some benchmarks the Mobility Radeon X300 was over 
| 10x faster!    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=821&num=1


AMD Delivers Significant Graphics Performance and Compatibility Enhancements
for Consumer Linux Users

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| Moving forward, AMD also plans to accelerate efforts to address the needs of 
| the open source community as well. 
| 
| "As client computing on Linux continues to grow so has our support and focus 
| on delivering best-in-class performance and compatibility for our products," 
| said Ben Bar-Haim, vice president of software, Graphics Product Group at AMD.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070905/20070904006432.html?.v=1


NVIDIA's Calm Before The Storm

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| It has been 80 days since the last NVIDIA Linux display driver was released.
| 
| [...]
| 
| This week is already very busy with the X Developer Summit going on where AMD 
| will be releasing their new ATI R500/600 open-source driver as well as the 
| specifications and it's very likely that the new NVIDIA 100.xx.xx series 
| driver will meet the world in the coming days.   
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA0NA


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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