Re: new mainboard

Aragorn wrote:

As for videocards, ATI cards traditionally have very poor and unstable
drivers for the Linux kernel, but this /may/ change in the near future, now
that AMD has purchased ATI and has announced to be releasing the ATI
drivers as Open Source to X.Org.

???? When did this happen? Any info on this?

--Yan
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