catalyst

Phoronix: "Last month we had looked at the ATI Radeon HD 4670 under Linux. This graphics card had worked just fine with the Catalyst Linux Suite, but when using either of the two open-source ATI drivers there were problems with the DVI connectors."

Phoronix: "With Ubuntu 8.10 being released in two weeks and it's using this newest X Server, how will ATI graphics cards be supported?

Well, an interesting event has occurred and we will tell you what has happened in this article."

OStatic: "I recently got the chance to talk with Gentoo Catalyst/Genkernel Release Engineering Lead Andrew Gaffney and developer/council member Donnie Berkholz about Gentoo Linux, the challenges it is facing, and the work that is being done by the community -- from veteran developers to new users -- to overcome them."

Phoronix: "...we've taken this opportunity to see how the open-source Mesa 3D stack compares to AMD's monthly-refined Catalyst Linux Suite with the fglrx driver performs for the Radeon X1000 (R500) series."

Phoronix: "When it comes to ATI hardware, one of the features we have been after for the longest time on Linux has been any overclocking support...Today though with the release of the Catalyst 8.8 Linux driver there is finally ATI OverDrive 5 support on Linux."

Internet News: "LSB 4.0, set for release by the end of this year, could be the catalyst that enables independent software vendors, or ISVs TERM (define), to develop applications that will run on any LSB-compliant Linux distribution.

If it gets adopted, LSB 4 could bring a new wave of multidistribution Linux application development."

Sebastian Bergmann has poted about a new something that he'll also be doing at this year's OSCON - leading a discussion about the emPHPower initiative.

Phoronix: "All of the Catalyst Linux driver releases this year have been... well, boring..."

Phoronix: "In the last quarter of 2007 AMD was on a spree with their proprietary Linux driver as they introduced their new OpenGL driver, which brought major performance improvements, and that was followed by AIGLX support..."

Lukas Smith recently posted an article talking about the need for an organization within the PHP community saying: There are is fundamental concept that I see in this vision: emPHPower is a mediator and catalyst that empowers members of the community to follow their own ideas