Ah ok, so it’s just the kernel part that they’re open sourcing, but a proprietary driver will still need to be installed just as before. I knew there had to be a catch.

I guess it’s nice that this would help with kernel issues, like graphics breaking when you install a new kernel. But still not quite what I was hoping for.

Is this really as good as it sounds? There’s some parts of the article that concern me:

The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs

Not every GPU is compatible with the open-source GPU kernel modules.

Is there any chance that this just means only a certain class of GPU’s are ever going to support open source, while their mainline desktop GPU’s will still be proprietary?

Not trying to spread FUD, but I don’t want to get too excited until I know for sure that this means they will support open source drivers on all their future desktop GPU’s.

He’s right.

I think there’s something more going on here than just “marketing”. Because if you look at the tiny thumbnail in the OP it’s very clearly red, and you can even load that thumbnail into an image editor and zoom in to see slightly reddish pixels.

So something happens when scaling this image that actually results in a red hue, and I don’t think my computers image scaling algorithms are also falling for “marketing”. I would guess it’s actually some kind of sub-pixel trick that makes it seem like there’s colors there which aren’t, and that’s why the image scaling algorithms also reveal the same colors you see.

That’s also how I feel whenever I access youtube from a different browser and just get the default listing.