Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-25 Thread Bianca Gibson
My second hand ATI is serving me well, very nice support in fedora. Radeon HD 3870, hooked up to 2 24" monitors, runs nicely even though it's quite old. Not sure I'd want to support nvidia... Bianca - on my phone, please excuse my brevity On Aug 25, 2012 4:32 PM, "Ben Sturmfels" wrote: > Adam Bo

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-25 Thread Adam Bolte
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:32:36PM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > Adam Bolte writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 07:50:00PM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > >> I see they've already raised $8M in pre-sales though, so perhaps > >> there are other free software organisations that would benefit more >

[free-software-melb] Agitating for free firmware (was: Chipping in for an Ouya console?)

2012-08-25 Thread Ben Finney
Adam Bolte writes: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:32:36PM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > > Choosing an AMD card means I'm giving some profits to AMD, who offer > > dramatically better support for free software. On the other hand > > though, I'd be required to use proprietary firmware. > > True. Even

[free-software-melb] Blender meeting this Thursday

2012-08-25 Thread Alex Fraser
Hi all, If you're interested in free software graphics, you might like to come to the next Blender meeting! We're having a couple of beginner-oriented talks, as well as a Google Summer of Code project summary from one student: http://melbourneblender.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/talks-installing