Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

[Emil Jensen]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
 Saphirus Sage wrote:

 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:


 http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069

 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the
 amount of patches contributed upstream...




 Good find, I actually didn't know about E-Trade using Gentoo servers. I
 don't think it should be too surprising that Gentoo would contribute
 more patches than Conical, as until today, I'd only actually heard of
 one of them.




 This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu user).
 How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu community to change
 their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream? Without having to
 change distributions.

I was sure I'd read something about Shuttleworth saying they were
going to start doing upstream fixes as it was one of their biggest
critisisms, and a quick google showed me this:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/09/canonical-to-fund-upstream-linux-usability-improvements.ars

I haven't actually watched the linked video yet (as at work), but I
think my link is still on topic.

 --Joshua Doll

Re: [gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux

[Emil Jensen]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Hal Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 So, do any of you have newer (HD series) AMD/ATi graphics cards?
 What drivers (AMD closed source, or open source) are you using?
 Are they stable?
 How is the performance?
 Any noise issues with your card when it's idle? Under load?


I've been following this a little although I do have an nVidia card. You
should check out Phoronix:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=categoryitem=Display%20Drivers

They are probably the top followers of Linux display drivers that I know of.
But off the top of my head I'd say that the ATI Catalyst drivers (closed
source) are really getting pretty good now and almost on par with their
windows equivalent.
The RadeonHD (open source) drivers are also getting pretty good, although it
depends on the chipset you're using (some have better support than others),
and if you're not doing cutting edge gaming, they should perform fine for
you.