They took forever, but slashdot eventually rejected my submission. I'm not sure, but I think someone there doesn't like me. :)
Anyhow, I figured maybe if a few others submitted similar news, they might eventually post one. Here's what I had written: Slashdot hasn't seen much news about the Open Graphics Project for some time now, but the OGP has been quite busy, especially recently. As you may recall, the OGP's goal is to develop a fully open-source graphics card. All specs, designs, and source code are released under Free licenses. Right now, they're using FPGAs (large-scale reprogrammable chips) to build a development platform that they call OGD1. And they've just completed an alpha version of legacy VGA emulation, apparently not an easy feat. They have posted a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtVEqNrT3w";>Youtube video</a> of OGD1 driving a monitor, showing Gentoo booting up in a PC. This completes a major step, allowing OGD1 to act as the primary display in an x86 PC. The announcement can be seen on the <a href="http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php?page=HomePage";>OGP home page</a>, and there's an <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/21358/Video_of_OGD1_VGA_Emulation_Booting_in_PC";>OSNews.com article</a>. Also, <a href="http://www.linuxfund.org/";>Linux Fund</a> is taking donations to raise money to buy ten OGD1 boards (at cost) to give to developers. Check it out at <a href="http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/ogd1/";>http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/ogd1/</a>. Finally, the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/";>Free Software Foundation</a> has taken notice of this and is <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/help-the-open-graphics-project";>asking for volunteers</a> to help with the OGP wiki. Feel free to copy, paste, modify, whatever, and post this to various news sources. We need to get those donations coming in, as well as more pre-orders! -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
