{"id":64,"date":"2006-12-23T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-12-23T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T12:36:38","slug":"oss-graphics-card-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/technology\/2006\/12\/oss-graphics-card-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"OSS Graphics Card Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a linux user who has yet to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgebank.com\/nouveaudriver\">the pledge<\/a>, I urge you to sign it. It&#8217;s still not ideal though, the fact that to get the full power of a linux desktop on most computers you need binary blobs in your kernel is definately a barrier to adoption.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just bought an Intel based computer rather than an AMD one because of Intel&#8217;s open drivers for their graphics.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully now AMD have bought ATi we&#8217;ll see them open up their drivers but there&#8217;s been no announcement yet. In the mean time, hopefully people will buy Intel rather than AMD to keep the pressure up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a linux user who has yet to see the pledge, I urge you to sign it. It&#8217;s still not ideal though, the fact that to get the full power of a linux desktop on most computers you need binary blobs in your kernel is definately a barrier to adoption. We&#8217;ve just bought an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}