Thursday, August 10, 2006

Intel aims for open-source graphics advantage

Intel on Wednesday released open-source software intended to give Linux full-fledged 3D graphics support and to give the chipmaker an advantage over rivals ATI Technologies and Nvidia.


A good move by intel, this may bring more people to be useing Intel chipsets on linux boxes, more often, second to the NVIDIA drivers, from the fact that they are open source. The thing that is key of these drivers, is that if the drivers are even decent, and if they are not, it will probibly take awhile for people to contribute code to optomize them..

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