Posted on Saturday, May 03 2008 @ 8:53 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Last month we reported on VIA's new open-source driver efforts
that was announced at the LF Austin Summit. This new strategy involves
VIA providing the open-source community with NDA-free hardware
specifications, code, and other resources -- in a similar fashion to
what ATI/AMD and Intel have been doing for some time now. However, not
everyone has been satisfied by this announcement and their new Linux
website isn't yet exactly useful. We explore the VIA Linux situation in
this article as well as sharing what two open-source developers have to
say.
Read more
at Phoronix.
