Good news from the AROS world. Thanks to a bounty, they've been working on Gallium3D for a while, and the fruit of this work is starting to taste good. Part of this effort included a 3D driver for NVIDIA cards, and now a 2D driver, based on Nouveau, is being developed as well. This driver has reached beta status, and testers are needed.
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Link goes to http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5434 (edit: looks like it's fixed now)
The announcement here on OS news made me wonder how they could have a 3D driver without having a 2D driver at all. But after reading the linked article, I get the impression they first had a 2D driver of their own, then bolted Nouveau's 3D on to it, and are now in the process of replacing the 2D part of their driver with a port of Nouveau as well.
Anyway, it's good to see that the efforts of the Nouveau team bear fruit even outside of the X.org environment. While I haven't taken the plunge and installed their 3D driver yet (I just have no need for it), the 2D driver has been extremely satisfactory for me for well over a year now.
Edited 2010-05-21 08:23 UTC
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There are two efforts to port Gallium3D to Haiku.
One is through a linux compatibility layer:
http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/Res-GSoC-Adding-3D-...
The work is owned by the employer and it's not 100% sure that it will be released : http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/Res-GSoC-Adding-3D-...
The other effort is to create a [more] native Haiku interface:
http://haikuware.com/20100513500/artur-wyszynski-interview-haiku-op...
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Here (http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5438) is another important AROS news this week (even more important that the nouveau work).
For people not following the project, AROS development is accelerating since several months and the community is growing.