this high priority item<\/a> in the Free
\n world fixed.) who have earlier been working on reverse engineering existing drivers.
\n Phoronix (an ATI friendly website) is of course all raged about all this news.<\/p>\n\n At the same time, the closed fglrx driver seems to be recovering from a long period of
\n minimal feature additions. For now, ATI promises large performance improvements for the
\n imminent 8.41 release and AIGLX support for October. This hopefully means short term that
\n a lot more machines that will run KDE 4 will be able to use a composited environment. Longer
\n term it means that the out of the box experience will be much better (imagine the driver
\n being merged in main line Linux and BSD!). Also it means that *you* decide when to throw
\n away that old video card (not a vendor deciding when to stop supporting it for newer kernels)
\n and maybe even the long-awaited stable support for suspend\/resume.<\/p>\n\n ATI now following Intel’s way of working with the community rather than around it means
\n that NVidia will have to think how to rearrange its “Open Source strategy” so it fits better
\n with a community-driven development model — although the immediate pressure on them is
\n a bit lower due to better driver quality and shorter ‘time-to-user’. “Following” in this
\n context means that that ATI requires — just like Intel — some sort of NDA for those who
\n want to look into the specifications.<\/p>\n\n An interesting bit is that the often-cited ‘AMD representative’ at the Kernel Summit in
\n Cambridge is Chris Schlaeger, a long-time KDE developer. Congrats, Chris!
\n
\n Update:<\/em> It seems that AMD has released large parts of their specification without
\n strings attached. Kudos to those who made it happen!
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