August 2008 News Archives


Linux Foundation End-User Summit

RadeonHD CS Driver Gets EXA Love

X.Org 7.4 To Lose DRI2 Support

Intel's Larrabee GPU Will Support Linux

AMD Launches 790GX / Radeon HD 3300

A New Acceleration Architecture For X

Phoronix Test Suite 1.2.0 Beta 1

GNOME 2.23.6 Released

Linux 2.6.27-rc2 Kernel Released

AMD Announces The ATI FirePro Series

OpenMoko 2008.8 Released

SplashTop Linux Security Hole Discovered

Intel's GEM Driver Enters Mainline Code

More On GEM & Intel's Next Driver

Intel Announces The Core i7 Processor

Adobe Flash Player 10 Release Candidate

RadeonHD Driver Switches To AtomBIOS

Linux 2.6.27-rc3 Kernel Released

Intel Releases USB 3.0 Draft Spec

SIGGRAPH 2008 Graphics Coverage

xf86-video-intel 2.4.1 Driver Released

X Gets Predictable Pointer Acceleration

Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 4

Git 1.6.0 Released, New Improvements

ALSA 1.0.17a & 1.0.18-rc1 Released

NVIDIA's OpenGL 3.0 Linux Driver?

Intel Core i7 Thermal Monitoring Support

9 Months And Still No UT3 Linux Client

Premium, IRC Reminders At Phoronix

Shadowgrounds Linux Game Update

Pidgin IM Client 2.5.0 Released

Linux 2.6.27-rc4 Kernel Released

Ubuntu 8.10 To Use Linux 2.6.27 Kernel?

Mandriva 2009 Beta 2 Released

WINE 1.1.3 Released, Four Weeks Of Fixes

Xen 3.3.0 Released, Many Virt Features

DRM Patches For Linux 2.6.27 Kernel

XDS 2008 In Less Than Two Weeks

Phoronix Test Suite 1.2.0 Beta 3

Open-Source Radeon Driver Improvements

Intel 2.5 Video Driver Test Release

A GEM-ified TTM Manager For Radeon

Mesa 7.1 Released, X.Org 7.4 Coming!

NVIDIA Releases OSS Driver Update

Open-Source 3D Success For Radeon RV770

NVIDIA 177.70 Beta Linux Driver

NVIDIA Releases Yet Another Linux Driver

Linux 2.6.27-rc5 Kernel Released

Revised DRI2 Enters Mesa, X Server

VIA Releases New X.Org Driver

XDS 2008 Quickly Approaching

Mandriva Improves Silicon Motion Driver

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