Re: new mainboard

CptDondo wrote:
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?

I presume by "this" that you are referring to the AMD acquisition of ATI. That happend last month. Press releases can be found on AMD's website:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~113741,00.html

Check out either the ATI or AMD for more info, and you'll see that they're both branded similarly with the AMD logo everywhere.

(If the "this" to which you were referring was some other part of the previous message...I can't offer any info.)
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