ATI RadeonHD Driver: First Release!

The X Window System developer team at SUSE has released version
1.0.0 of the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx chipset driver it has been
developing over the past few months for Novell’s technology partner AMD.

The source code was initially released
to the public on September 18th. Since then numerous features have been
added to the driver and numerous issues have been fixed in cooperation
with the free software community.

Packages can be found in the openSUSE Build Service, and more information is available on SUSE X.org wiki page.

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Nouveau: A First Look

Nouveau is a community project that is working on producing open-source
3D display drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards. Nouveau is not affiliated with
NVIDIA Corporation and is an X.Org Foundation project. While this project is still
far from being completed, for this holiday special we are sharing some of our
first thoughts on this project from our experience thus far. We would like to
make it very clear, however, that the Nouveau driver is no where near completed
and still has a great deal of work ahead for the 3D component. This article today
will also hopefully shed some light on the advancements of this project so far.

Read the full article at Phoronix.

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