[geeks] Interesting ATI/AMD news

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Mon Jul 31 10:12:35 CDT 2006


Sat, 29 Jul 2006 @ 12:13 -0700, Alex Feinberg said:

>     Given the incredibly poor (in my view) support that the recent ATI
> chips have in Linux (and lack thereof in FreeBSD), especially when
> compared to Nvidia, I wonder what this would mean for the FOSS
> community.
> 
>     Or does this mean, under AMD's pressure, we are likely to see
> better Linux drivers for ATI?

AMD has been supportive of FOSS in the past, so it seems likely.

It would be hard for things to get worse...

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