Long overdue update… Let’s try this again!

Posted on March 12, 2009 by fang64.
Categories: News.

The slow updates are due to school and the time it consumes and prevents me from maintaining the site in proper and consistent manor. This does not mean, I will not update the site at all. I have some important topics to bring up that are going on in different areas of technology.

It’s worth mentioning that the squabbles that Nvidia and Intel are having are apparently dealing with the use of the on-board memory controllers that Intel has built onto their processors versus an external one that most manufacturers of chipsets will have to deal with. Nvidia apparently is out of their arena making the chipset utilise this feature thus causing this lawsuit to occur. In an interesting turn of events the rumour mills have been pushing out that Nvidia may have a contract with Apple to be used as a chipset for newer Macs this presents another reason the whole issue cropped up. I don’t know if information was leaked to the Intel camp but it seems this wasn’t in Intel’s best interest to allow Nvidia to profit from Apple as they have been since the processor transition. I am curious to see if Nvidia is going to get hurt even though I am running their products it doesn’t mean I like or dislike the company. I was driven by a decision to cut cost on my computer and not fork out cash for a larger powersupply unless until power management is improved for ATI.

Debian 5.0 or Lenny has been out for quite a bit, and I’ve am running it as my primary OS at the moment with a tainted kernel as I am using Nvidia’s blob driver, so I have 3d functionality. I have been investigating the nouveau and possible future options for the card assuming I get my system completely working right. What has impressed me so far is the massive update it has made to the entire OS overall along with adding newer versions of stable software to the repository finally among other things. I moved away from Gentoo to Debian Lenny when emerging the world took more than 12 hours I decided recompiling everything might not have been the best plan.

This comes as a interesting surprise but it looks like heavy development is going on with wayland in the redhat camp. I think it could become a serious X server and possibly more when it becomes mature. But this remains to be seen. The push to implement this on Ubuntu and Fedora mainly, and others probably to come is important to regain speed loses due to the bloat in the current implementation of X. It’s to be seen how this will fair with the one graphics manufacturer that has failed to open up their drivers to support what is needed to get this working. But ATI and Intel have both made efforts and had success with implementation on the platform. I am curious to see if Nvidia will follow suit if it becomes more successful or will the nouveau folks beat nvidia to implementation who knows. It’s like Nvidia is stuck in some awkward position that opening specifications would be some violation of a agreement which it could be.

Until next update…