What Goes On Within AMD's Linux Beta Program?

news · March 10, 2009

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

Title: What Goes On Within AMD's Linux Beta Program? ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "This year NVIDIA has been following the "release early,

release often" mantra with it seeming like two weeks can't even go by

without seeing a new Linux driver -- whether it's a beta driver, an

official driver update, or one of their legacy drivers picking up a few

fixes (at times they have even released four drivers at once). On the

opposite spectrum, AMD continues with monthly Catalyst driver updates on

both Linux and windows. Rather than a continual stream of new public

driver releases, AMD maintains a private beta program for their Catalyst

Linux driver. This private program is made up of AMD developers,

hardware vendors, users of different Linux distributions, other Linux

vendors, and end-users. Phoronix has been apart of this program for

years, but those testing this driver are under a strict Non-Disclosure

Agreement with AMD regarding pre-releases of their Linux software.

Today, however, AMD has decided to declassify some information

pertaining to its Linux Graphics Driver Beta Program."

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