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Re: [News] GuardIT Releases, New NVIDIA Driver Also

Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:09:00 +0000,
>  Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Arxan Technologies Announces Linux Support for Desktop, Server and Embedded
>>> Applications
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>>>| Fulfilling the need to protect Linux applications against piracy, reverse 
>>>| engineering and malware insertion, Arxan's GuardIT for Linux supports 
>>>| software applications across Linux desktop, server and embedded platforms.  
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/1/prweb644101.htm
>>> 
>>> NVIDIA 169.09 Linux Display Driver
>>> 
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>>>| One month and one day after the NVIDIA 169.07 display driver was released, 
>>>| the Santa Clara folks have released a minor driver update for Linux and 
>>>| Solaris. No new features have been introduced, but just a couple of bug 
>>>| fixes.   
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=973&num=1
>>> 
>>> When ATI stopped improving the old Linux driver its real reason was the quiet
>>> open-sourcing/speccing (before it got announced). Sign of things to come?
>>> 
>>
>> I certainly hope so.  This intel-based openGL machine I have is fine,
>> and in fact seems to punch well above its weight in terms of openGL
>> capability.  I suspect a lot of that is down to having a good, open
>> driver.
>>
> 
> 
> Dunno if it's the driver or what. But my laptop has the intel 945
> embedded chipset, shares video ram with the machine, and yet, does the
> whole beryl spinning cube thing with all the bells and whistles as well
> as the 512MB NVidia card in the desktop. (Of course, the desktop is a
> *much* older proc, PIV@2GHz vs Core2 Duo at 2+GHz in the laptop, so that
> certainly has an affect) Doesn't play games as well, so there are
> certainly some limitations. But does very well considering. 
> 

It was your posting some time ago on this very subject which persuaded
me to get this machine.  You might recall that at the time I said that I
would.  Well, I did :-)

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