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Old 06-22-2008, 11:50 AM
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Earlier this week we shared that work on Nouveau Companion has been halted until at least the end of August and the project has been in a state of disarray due to the project's leader, Stephane Marchesin, evaluating future job opportunities -- therefore putting his non-paid Nouveau work on the back burner. Some readers have expressed concern whether Nouveau will be able to continue full-speed ahead, but today there is some good news coming out of this reverse-engineered NVIDIA camp. Nouveau's Maarten Maathuis has announced on the dri-devel mailing list that he has imported his initial kernel mode-setting code for the (NV50/G80) GeForce 8 series...

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Old 06-22-2008, 02:12 PM
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When I first read the headline, I thought that Nvidia had kicked off their open source strategy by surprise in order to take the wind out of AMD/ATI's sail (like the 9800GTX+). Oh well, maybe some other time
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It seams to me, that halting the project is a message to RedHat/Ubuntu/Suse. "Hire us."
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It seams to me, that halting the project is a message to RedHat/Ubuntu/Suse. "Hire us."
They never halted it
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