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标  题: RedHat announce the start of XBF X-Server Program
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jun 24 11:33:44 1998)

鉴于好多Hardware Vendor不愿意提供技术细节以帮助Linux Community开发drivers,
使许多显卡/网卡/声卡driver开发困难很大, 就只好release binary了 -:(((
但总比没有support要强
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Red Hat announces the start of the XBF
X-Server Program

Research Triangle Park, NC--June 16, 1998--Red Hat Software, publisher of
the award-winning, multi-tasking Red Hat Linux Operating System, today
announced the start of the XBF X-Server Program. The XBF X-Server
Program, standing for X Binary Free X-Servers, will expand the range of PC
graphics cards on which the Linux OS runs.

This program represents an interim solution to those Linux users who have
chosen graphics cards from manufacturers who do not currently recognize the
benefit of supplying their customers with the source code to their video card
drivers. Access to the source code gives the customer, their technical staff, and
their technology partners the power and control to improve the tools that they
are using.

Giving users control results in higher performance from graphically intensive
applications and leads to more stable and reliable systems in general. For these
reasons, Red Hat will continue to promote and recommend graphics cards for
which source-code included graphics drivers are available.

Red Hat is committed to the Linux Development Model and will release the
binary version of the XBF drivers under a freely distributable license
agreement.

"The Red Hat model is the open development model," said Erik Troan, Chief
Developer at Red Hat Software. "We are committed to developing freely
distributable XBF servers for Linux because it benefits all those Linux users
who otherwise would not be able to run Linux's graphical X Window system
on their computer."

The XBF Program is the result of Red Hat's development partnership with
Precision Insight, creators of graphics and video device drivers. For more
information about Precision Insight, please contact Frank LaMonica at
frankl@precisioninsight.com

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