Just now, both the server and desktop editions of the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope beta have been released. It comes with a boatload of new features, some of which come courtesy of upstream. A new GNOME release, a new X.org release, a new notification system, they're all in there.
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If I'm not mistaken...because I used to own one of these. The X800 has open source drivers. It was the fastest graphics graphics card with open source drivers, and there was lots of exciting developments still going on. I have since moved to the X4500HD onboard intel.
I haven't owned the card for over a year, but I know since then R500/600 cards have been added to the driver, the main problem of missing features have all but gone OpenGL1.3 is supported and OpenGL1.4 if it hasn't already, I cannot comment on general speed although I would be surprised if that has not continued to improve. , and new features including KMS/DRI2 are part of a Open Source driver.
http://tirdc.livejournal.com/
http://airlied.livejournal.com/
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/
AMD have not provided the same level of support for their Graphics chips in Linux as Intel, but now we are starting to see the benefits with having open source drivers.
There are ways of installing the latest drivers and finding out for yourself on Ubuntu!
http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xo...
http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xo...
Now if only NVidia were as open, nouveau only there for 2D functions, has not progressed as quickly as I would have hoped.
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Time to give it another try, I just hope nothing is broken this time.