open source drivers

Tech-No-Media: "As pointed out by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols this was planned for a long time and will benefit Microsoft as much (if not more) than Linux.

The only important thing this shows is that Microsoft is ready to embrace the GPL if it serves it's business interests."

Web Upd8: "You can now reduce the wait for the latest graphic card driver in Ubuntu, which will only be available in a few months.

There is an Ubuntu repository periodically updated with the latest open source drivers included in the xorg project."

This probably comes as no surprise to faithful Enterprise Linux Log readers, but the use of open source software grew at a whopping 55% a year.

No kidding. That figure is courtesy of a study by well-known Linux author and consultant Bernard Golden, CEO of San Carlos, Calif.-based Navica Inc. for O’Reilly Media and released this week during the ongoing OSCON convention in Portland, Ore.