[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“Since Stephen Shankland’s article at CNET entitled New Linux
look fuels old debate, we have been overwhelmed with requests to
take a serious look at the frame-rate performance differences
between the various open-source and proprietary contenders. Many of
Stephen’s thoughts had revolved around the recent push for Linux
desktop eye candy through delivering 3D effects with such projects
as AIGLX from the Fedora RenderingProject, and XGL. Some of his
thoughts had also pertained to Fedora/Red Hat closing out
proprietary kernel modules by shipping Fedora Core 5 with a flawed
kernel. There also has been lots of open-source discussion since a
disturbance that took place where the Free Software Foundation’s
Richard M Stallman was almost arrested at an event where an ATI
programmer was speaking. Our first article on this topic, which
will likely be the start of a series of examinations, is looking at
the differences between the X.Org open-source ATI Radeon driver and
that of ATI’s official but proprietary fglrx display driver…”