open source support

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Oct 2006 14:02 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel "Open-source support has appeared by default in X.Org 7.1 for R300 generation GPUs.

October 20, 2008 - 3 hours, 23 minutes ago Share Comments Hey! Wanted to let you all know that Daniel Hinojosa, our support manager, will be talking about a day in the life of your typical open source support ...

Networking giant Sun has called on its employees and community members to promote the importance and benefits of open source technologies.

Sun has made the call as part of its sponsorship of Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 20, 2008.

ZDNet: "The image of enterprise customers is their support isn’t as good as that of Oracle or Microsoft."

What's extraordinary about the open source community is that this level of support happens all the time, every day, without charge, in hundreds, thousands of projects out there.

In my early Linux system administration days, when I was first trying to set up a mail server with spam filtering, I ran across a really puzzling bug in Dspam, the software I was trying to get working.

I started writing a response to a discussion in the latest " Linux Link Tech Show " episode, but ended up with something far too long, so I've split it up into 4 posts.

Michael writes "Back in September AMD had announced a new ATI Linux driver as well as opening up their GPU specifications, and today they have taken an additional step to better support the Linux OS.

With the just-announced Radeon HD 4850 RV770 they have provided same-day Linux support, and the Linux driver is now shipping alongside the Windows driver on their product CDs.

In addition, they are encouraging their AIB partners to showcase Tux on the product packaging as a sign of Linux support.

Phoronix: "On the same day as the limited open-source support arriving in the xf86-video-nv driver, NVIDIA's binary display driver for Linux has been updated to officially add support for the GeForce 9600GT graphics card.."