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[News] MadWiFi Gives Binary Blobs the Kick, NVidia's New Binary Blob Benchmarked

  • Subject: [News] MadWiFi Gives Binary Blobs the Kick, NVidia's New Binary Blob Benchmarked
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:58:17 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
MadWifi developers move to ath5k

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| We, the MadWifi team, announce our decision to move away from the
| binary-only HAL and change the focus of our future development towards
| ath5k [1], a completely free (as in freedom) driver which will eventually
| become an integral part of the Linux kernel.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/250718/

NVIDIA 100.14.19 + 8800GTS 640MB

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| The performance regression fix is very apparent!
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=851&num=1

NVidia's stance on open source drivers is soon to be published.


Related:

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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


NVIDIA 100.14.19 Display Driver

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| After a very slow summer, NVIDIA has finally rolled out an updated Linux 
| proprietary display driver.  
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=846&num=1

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