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phoronix.com - 11/6/2008

[Phoronix] Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their X-Fi Driver

— phoronix.com — The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card driver for Linux from Creative Labs was awful. That's simply the... nicest way to put it. The driver was home to many bugs, initially only supported 64-bit Linux, and it was arriving extremely late. The open-source ... (more) [Phoronix] Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their ...

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phoronix.com - 10/29/2008

[Phoronix] AMD's X-Video Bitstream Acceleration

— phoronix.com — In early September we shared that UVD2 and XvMC is coming to Linux and that two new... library files had begun shipping with the ATI Catalyst driver: AMDXvBA and XvBAW. Earlier this month the Unified Video Decoding 2 (UVD2) support was then enabled by ... (more) [Phoronix] AMD's X-Video Bitstream Acceleration

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phoronix.com - 10/26/2008

[Phoronix] NVIDIA Delivers Beta OpenGL 3.0 Linux Driver

— phoronix.com — The OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 specification were released back in August during SIGGRAPH 2008 . Just... days later NVIDIA had delivered a beta driver for Windows that added OpenGL 3.0 functionality , but Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris users were left in the ... (more) [Phoronix] NVIDIA Delivers Beta OpenGL 3.0 Linux Driver

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Psystar offers Blu-ray option for Mac clones
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Two Blu-ray burners can be added to Psystar's Open and OpenPro line of computers, a $310 6x Blu-ray burner, and a $350 6x Blu-ray burner that includes a 16x DVD±RW DL drive. It appears that both can be added to a single system. ...

Psystar Shipping Mac Clone with Blu-ray, 9800GT
Maximum PC — ... . Psystar president Rudy Pedraza lampooned Apple, in a press release, for having still not embraced Blu-ray despite the fact that it has already won the HD format war. He heavily extolled Blu-ray, which he believes is a huge asset for media editing professionals and enterprises - a demographic that Psystar can now serve. Psystar is certainly trying its best to get under the skin of Apple whose patience must be wearing thin. Around a fortnight ago, ...

Judge throws out Psystar's countersuit against Apple
The Tech Report: News — ... in July, alleging that the small, Miami-based firm violated trademarks, broke license agreements, and diluted the Apple brand. Psystar continues to sell its white-box "Open" computers with Mac OS X 10.5 pre-installed to this day. Last we checked, Psystar was using software from the (public) OSx86 project to get OS X running without Apple's special sauce. (Thanks to TR reader ssidbroadcast for the tip.) Tags: ...

Apple: Psystar clones part of a larger conspiracy
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Psystar taunts Apple with smaller and faster Mac clone
TechSpot — ... model completely lacks even basic networking and adding the “optional” functionality will cost $99. The machine can further be configured with up to a 2.53GHz Core 2 Quad processor, 4GB of RAM, two 1TB drives, GeForce 9500 GT graphics and a Blu-ray burner – but tick all those options and you'll be looking at something closer to $2,000. Psystar has also refreshed the OpenPro with a new base configuration, rack mount chassis and bootable RAID options. Check out all the details over at the company’s website .

Mac clone company Psystar back online
TG Daily - Hardware News — Chicago (IL) – Psystar, currently under legal fire by Apple and bankruptcy proceedings, is selling computers again, including a not so cheap Core i7 enthusiast system. We almost thought that Psystar would face ...