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Open source drivers for graphic cards from Intel
Posted by JLP on August 10th, 2006
Although VIA was the first company (as far as I know) to claim that their drivers for graphic cards are open source, these claims were questioned several times and many still believe that they are far from open source. Anyway, today we were blessed with news that could indicate things in the graphic drivers world are finally moving into the right direction that will benefit people. Intel has just announced they are releasing free and open source drivers for their 965 Express Chipset family graphics controller. The drivers support 2D and 3D and are only the beginning. All future development of the drivers will be done openly and in close cooperation with X.org and Mesa communities. To read more about this visit the newly created website Linux Graphics Drivers from Intel. Now we can only hope that AMD (which is the new owner of ATI), nVidia and other companies follow this noble example. There are already some rumors (read the last paragraph) that AMD will follow a similar path with ATI drivers.
August 10th, 2006 at 02:56:42
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