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Submission + - AMD and Novell release open source Radeon driver (phoronix.com)

Submitted by

canatella

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @04:36AM

canatella writes: "phoronix.com is running this story:

"Not only is AMD providing the open-source community with their ATI GPU specifications, but they have also been partnering with Novell on the development of a new open-source display driver. We've been telling you about AMD's open-source work all month, and today the new driver is finally available for download. It is still very much a work in progress and isn't much further along than the open-source R500 Avivo driver. However, this new driver does support the Radeon HD 2000 (R600) family."

The new driver is hosted at FreeDesktop.org."

Submission + - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Is Dead

Submitted by The Breeze on Sunday August 12, 2007 @02:19AM

The Breeze writes: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was 84 years old, and I think that it's fitting to submit a Slashdot story about him under Politics because, ultmately, although some called him a "literary" writer and some called him a "sci-fi" writer, he is best known for writing Slaughterhouse Five. That book has a description of the Dresden bombing that is a graphic illustration of what happens when politics fails. In his latter years he used his writing skills to attack George Bush with gleeful abandon. You can read more here or here," with the latter being a more philosophical look at the man.

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