On Wednesday 23 March 2005 20:13, Joe Bushong wrote: > There is a short news article about the Open Graphics Project in this > month's MaximumPC magazine on page 15. > > It is a very positive article but rightly points out that this will > NOT be a performance card. > > Unfortunately there isn't a link listed to the wiki or this email list > but you can't ask for everything... > > Maybe after we pick a permanent name for our card (my vote is for > OpenGlass) we can get some more press in Wired magazine and LWN.net
Maybe it's time to reopen the naming discussion. It's good to have a name if you want publicity. I found http://glass.sf.net yesterday. It's not hardware and it's not OpenGlass, but it may still be too close for comfort. There are a few points of discussion: - Do we keep the Raptor name TechSource uses for its other products? Pros: We may get some cross-promotion between different TechSource cards, although the target market for this product is rather different than that of other TS products. The TechSource name itself will probably do that already, as well. The people at TechSource may want it (which would of course be an overriding concern). Cons: It might make the wrong impression, and trigger "it sucks for gaming" responses. Then there is the issue of how professional it sounds. In the medical and ATC markets Raptor apparently works, but if we can get the name to give a strong impression that this is a professional card for people who get work done rather than the same thing you play games on, it would be a big plus I think. Kind of like Opteron vs. Athlon and Xeon vs. P4. - Political issues A major issue from a developer point of view is that the specs of the card will be open. That will be an important part of the market, since you need the specs for Open Source operating systems and probably for the embedded market. However, if we want this thing on a mainboard (perhaps instead of the five year old ATI Rage XL on a board like http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tomcatk8e.html) we'll probably be competing on price and driver quality. The mainboard manufacturer will want something that works on Windows at least, and we should be careful not to give too much of a GNU hippy feel to it :-). We should also be careful to avoid making the impression that the RTL will be freely available. So the openness should probably be in there somewhere, but the "professionalism" criterium carries at least as much weight. Here are the names that are currently on the Wiki (http://wiki.duskglow.com/index.php/OpenGraphics%20videocard%20naming). I removed minor variations and grouped them a bit: TS Raptor TS Raptor OpenView TS Raptor Transcension TS Raptor OpenGraphics TS Raptor OpenStealth TS OpenRaptor TS Raptor Freedom Heart of Gold Harbinger ORC Harbinger Lightbringer TS Visionary Freedom Graphite TS Glass TS OpenGlass TS Aventurine TS Tiger's Eye TS Zircon OpenPower TS OpenGraphics TSOSGC01 Right now my vote would go to something from the bottom two groups. Although TSOSGC01 is probably a bit too much :-). Lourens _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
