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Atheros releases free software wireless driver; no binary blobs

http://www.fsf.org

"Atheros Communications has announced the release of free software wireless drivers for ath9k. The ath9k driver requires no proprietary binary blobs and works on several chipsets and over a dozen wireless devices..."

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Created by can.axis 13 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 43 weeks ago
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Support for 100+ webcams in Linux 2.6.27 (USB Video Class Driver)

http://i-nz.net

According to a thread on the Linux uvcvideo driver mailing list if everything goes well we will see it included in the 2.6.27 kernel!

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Created by greengrass 13 years 47 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 47 weeks ago
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Nvidia says no to free drivers, I say no to Nvidia

http://www.nuxified.org

They have even criticized Nvidia specifically for not releasing free drivers. Nvidia responded.

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How NVidia Impedes Free and Open Source Desktop Adoption

http://vizzzion.org

Linux developers demand open drivers, docs and development processes, NVIDIA refuses to open their drivers, arguing that the technical quality is not a problem, and that the driver contains intellectual property they wish to protect. ATI/AMD has shown the intellectual property argument is at least not universally applicable to graphics hardware. Let's also clear up a misconception about the technical quality of closed NVIDIA drivers.

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Created by JRepin 13 years 48 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 48 weeks ago
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Linux Graphics, a Tale of Three Drivers

https://www.linuxfoundation.org

The purpose of this essay is to illustrate by example the strengths and weaknesses of the open source development model versus the binary driver one.

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Created by leo 13 years 48 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 48 weeks ago
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AMD Makes An Evolutionary Leap In Linux Support

http://www.phoronix.com

AMD also continues to publish new programming guides and register information on a routine basis for their latest and greatest hardware. This has been truly phenomenal to see, but AMD has now evolved their Linux support by taking it a large step further.

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Created by GadgetGeek 13 years 48 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 48 weeks ago
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VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code

http://www.phoronix.com

Back at the Linux Foundation Austin Summit, VIA had announced plans to develop a new open-source initiative in a similar fashion what AMD has been doing. However, in the weeks following that they haven't done much for the open-source community.

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Created by GadgetGeek 14 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 2 weeks ago
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AMD Launches Open GPU Website

http://www.phoronix.com

AMD has today launched their new open GPU documentation website for register-level documents covering their ATI Radeon products. In addition, they are now providing an email address for any open-source developers who may have questions concerning these documents.

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Created by serdar 14 years 15 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 15 weeks ago
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Flipping the Linux switch: Envy, no longer a deadly sin

http://www.downloadsquad.com

We're taking a little departure this week from our sometimes successful attempt to be non-distro-specific, and looking at a neat little program that runs on Debian and Ubuntu flavors (including Ubuntu-derivatives, like Mint).

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Created by mads 14 years 15 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 15 weeks ago
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Flipping the Linux switch: 5 tips every new Linux user should know

http://www.downloadsquad.com

Linux is a powerful operating system, but chances are it's a very different operating system than any you've used before. The dizzying number of choices in distributions alone is enough to make your head spin, but it also means there's something out there that really suits your computing style.

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Created by bluecheese 14 years 20 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 20 weeks ago
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11 Predictions for Free Software in 2008

http://www.linuxplanet.com

As a journalist, if a very different kind from Trudeau, I appreciate the sentiment. Looking back at 2007, who could have predicted that, after all the posturing by open source advocates, that the new version of the GNU General Public License would have caused so little division? Or that Linspire and Xandros would have followed Novell and made their own deals with Microsoft? Or that virtualization, which was such a hot topic in 2006, would have settled down to just another technology?

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Created by leo 14 years 21 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 21 weeks ago
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All 235 low-cost webcams supported in Linux thanks to... this man

http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com

A LONE HOBBYIST programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 235 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux.

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Created by serdar 14 years 24 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 24 weeks ago
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The problems with ATI graphics and Ubuntu 7.10

http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com

I've had a Sapphire ATI X1950 Pro video card for over 30 days now, and it's crossed my mind more than once to send it back to Newegg and get an nVidia replacement.

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Created by greengrass 14 years 27 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 26 weeks ago
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Why The Linux Driver Project is Good for Corporations

http://www.osweekly.com

What happens when you take 200 hardcore roughly 10 project managers heck bent on making sure that your preferred Linux distro has the best driver support possible? You end up with The Linux Driver project.

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Created by mark 14 years 29 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 28 weeks ago
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Linux device driver drama: Who will deliver support, code sharing?

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com

Device drivers can make or break an operating system. The best engineered kernel is useless if applications running on it cannot interface with the outside world or if device manufacturers cannot readily support it with their wares.

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Created by C733tus 14 years 29 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 29 weeks ago
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