Mesa 10.5 Updates Open-Source Graphics Drivers 24
An anonymous reader writes Mesa 10.5 has been released to update the open-source Linux graphics driver stack. This quarterly update to Mesa has initial support for Intel's next-generation Skylake graphics, Qualcomm Adreno A4xx support, EGL support on the BeOS-inspired Haiku, the new NIR intermediate representation, and other changes. While new GL4 extensions were implemented, the Intel/Radeon/Nouveau drivers only have enough support right now to expose OpenGL 3.3, but GL4.2 is expected out of the open-source drivers by the end of the year.
Don't bother. (Score:2)
The summary is almost as long as the article, which is only slightly longer than the original release notes.
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Well it's Phoronix... if a mouse farts in the open source GPU department, it's an article there. Even when it's pretty much non-news they got like ten articles of "one step closer to major news" before the major news actually happens. It's almost a blog in the shape of a site.
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And apparently it's not even out yet [mesa3d.org] so this is just the pre-release article about what will be coming in a minor point release. Yawn.
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> Windows is only slightly ahead of Linux. Mac OS X is the closest, but even it never had the panache that BeOS had. BeOS was one of a kind. It was The Best.
You know, when I leave home to work, I think how fortunate I am to be forced to use Windows there; I don't have to endure Linux like I do at home. Yep. Lucky me.
I'll have to believe you that BeOS is great, because when I wanted to test it, it had some idiot limitations which made it a big turn off. Not copulating at all.
And that is what happens to mo
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I'm using Firefox on an old computer right now -- mainly because the Nouveau guys are simply great and made it work.
What specs?
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AMD Sempron 2300+ (nearly 1.6 GHz), PAE-capable (though not in use), i686 but no SSE2
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Sempron(TM) 2300+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1583.294
cache size : 256 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de ps
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If your motherboard supports 200MHz FSB instead of 166 (which might be a big if) then the CPU should run at 1.9GHz, which should not be terribly hard at all. That sempron was a rather quite underclocked Athlon XP, probably so they call sell it a tiny bit cheaper.
I had flash player 11.2 running on a Pentium III. Alright, I've researched the issue and these dumb nuts dropped SSE from one 11.2.x.x release to another!
pitiful html5 performance matches what I've seen on another computer (VIA C7 at 1GHz, Windows 7
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Where is BeOS now?
Check this out:
http://haiku-os.org/ [haiku-os.org]
Progress is very slow, but it's still going. Don't bother with the Alpha 4 download, try one of the nightly snapshots instead.
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well done mentioning an os mentioned in the blurb!
anyhow, could you tell if it has working 3d hardware support? nvidia, amd? few year old cards? there was some hubbub about it few years ago but never catched if they had managed to do it or not.
I ran BeOS dano leaked beta for few years on an irc/mp3 box. it was great and unlike ubuntu if the soundsystem crashed you didn't need a reboot. you didn't need a reboot for anything pretty much and did it's thing on a 300mhz or something box pretty well.
not that it m
Systemd required yet? (Score:1)
Systemd required yet?
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too late for Mesa (Score:4, Funny)
I read that systemd now subsumes the graphics driver, which will be used to render text as graphics into system logs. Also, there's a hard dependency between Gnome and systemd's graphics drivers.
Wake me up... (Score:2)