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[Phoronix] Canonical Publishes ATI Catalyst 8.10 Beta

— phoronix.com — X Server 1.5 was officially released last month with X.Org 7.4 , but there had been server... pre-releases going back to earlier this year . Fedora 9 had even shipped with an early version version of X Server 1.5. For those using the open-source X.Org ... (more) [Phoronix] Canonical Publishes ATI Catalyst 8.10 Beta

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