End of the World is Near - CCC for Linux

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Interview with ATi's Terry Makedon. Included are some interesting
statistics, for example:

"Traditionally, ATI's Catalyst driver updates are downloaded 2 million times
a month with a break down of 5% Linux downloads, 5% XP 64-bit and 90% or so
for XP 32-bit."

Apparently that 5% Linux is enough to warrant its own version of Catalyst
Control Center, probably to satisfy the FireGL workstation users. Wonder if
it will run as slowly as the Windows version. Hehe.

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=367
 
First of One said:
Interview with ATi's Terry Makedon. Included are some interesting
statistics, for example:

"Traditionally, ATI's Catalyst driver updates are downloaded 2 million
times a month with a break down of 5% Linux downloads, 5% XP 64-bit and
90% or so for XP 32-bit."

Apparently that 5% Linux is enough to warrant its own version of Catalyst
Control Center, probably to satisfy the FireGL workstation users. Wonder
if it will run as slowly as the Windows version. Hehe.
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2 things wrong with the CCC version on windows
it's built on .net
it doesn't integrate with the display settings errr tab/window/whatever

(as far as i know anyway, i'v avoided it since day 1)

i can't see the linux one being as bloaty as .net
so prob won't be 'quite' as bad
 
First of One said:
Interview with ATi's Terry Makedon. Included are some interesting
statistics, for example:

"Traditionally, ATI's Catalyst driver updates are downloaded 2 million
times a month with a break down of 5% Linux downloads, 5% XP 64-bit and
90% or so for XP 32-bit."

Apparently that 5% Linux is enough to warrant its own version of Catalyst
Control Center, probably to satisfy the FireGL workstation users. Wonder
if it will run as slowly as the Windows version. Hehe.

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=367
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If they write the GUI in QT it might end up being even slower!! :) Seriously
though, I welcome any GUI Control Panel for the ATI Linux drivers. Hacking
the Xorg.conf for every change you need gets old.

Tony
 
2 things wrong with the CCC version on windows
it's built on .net
it doesn't integrate with the display settings errr tab/window/whatever
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I just downloaded NASA's newest update to World Wind v1.4. It's one quarter
the size of it previous version, 16meg verses 64meg. Apparently from an
article I read, NASA dropped .net and went with active-x for its code base.
What a huge difference, and I see only improvements in responsiveness.
(Could be wrong, maybe they dropped some images in the original installed
package or something else?)

Maybe ATI needs to get a clew and drop .net and go active-x too. Seems .net
has a huge overhead and performance hit when used.

William
 
Apparently from an
article I read, NASA dropped .net and went with active-x for its code base.
What a huge difference, and I see only improvements in responsiveness.
(Could be wrong, maybe they dropped some images in the original installed
package or something else?)

Maybe ATI needs to get a clew and drop .net and go active-x too. Seems .net
has a huge overhead and performance hit when used.

William
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active x ?
 
That would just be silly. ActiveX was Microsoft's big sin before .NET
Framework. Better would be a simple C-program like the old Control Panel.

Of course, on the fruity-looking Vista, .NET is probably the sensible way
forward.
 
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