Red Hat Is Looking To Hire Another Experienced Open-Source Graphics Driver Developer

[starshipeleven]

Not that I had any hope given the requirements of 5 years graphics experience which I don't have, but pressing Apply button results in:

This is why VPNs are a thing.

[Hi-Angel]

Not that I had any hope given the requirements of 5 years graphics experience which I don't have, but pressing Apply button results in:



Oh, well.

[starshipeleven]

Honestly, I am counting down the days until Gnome 3 requires compute capability on the GPU in order to effectively layout gui elements whilst making sure that they do not collide! XD.

Honestly, you really need to stop posting this bullshit, it makes you look bad.

My point being that many of us are still entirely dissatisfied with the main Linux desktop environments.

Your point is bullshit, as explained above, and repeated below:

KDE 5 Plasma and GNOME3 are perfectly responsive and work perfectly fine on a workstation running a shitty ATI Xpress 200 integrated graphics from 2004. I just replaced the ancient HDD with a more modern HDD (still mechanical, no SSD) for unrelated reasons (the stupid thing was noisy).

[kpedersen]

I have to wonder is you guys trashing Redhat actually use Fedora or RedHats software..

I have absolutely no issue with Red Hat. Quite to the contrary, I am saying that they are perhaps one of our only options to get GPUs working well enough for "desktop" usage. I have evidenced in quite a few threads that I am a happy RHEL 6 user (especially since Red Hat still maintains recent browsers for this platform)

I am however saying that Gnome3 is a terrible mess and IMO through poor decisions has caused this over-reliance on a GPU in the first place. It isn't sustainable and I think it needs to be re-evaluated.

Yes, this is a Linux "gamer" forums in essence; so a GPU isn't so much of a problem for us, but from an enterprise or digital preservation, virtualisation angle it is poorly conceived and naive. It simply means time and resources are being spent working on software that no-one can use.

[wizard69]

Its kinda funny but the fact that Red Hat is now stuck with the absolute piece of crap that is Gnome3 for their main desktop is possibly the *only* reason why they are looking at developing better GPU drivers to handle its completely absurd graphical requirements.

This is kind of a win because Gnome 3 will disappear some day but these drivers will stick around much longer and are priceless. Without Red Hat to pay these uniquely skilled developers, we would likely have never had them.

Quite funny watching an enterprise Linux distro struggle with gamer graphics cards just because the user-interface community has completely failed them. But at least they are in the position to save us; we obviously cannot save ourselves from the onslaught of poor software decisions.

I have to wonder is you guys trashing Redhat actually use Fedora or RedHats software. Honestly Fedora on MY AMD based laptop put Windows ten to shame readily out performing it. That is on a machine with new Ryzen based hardware that requires new drivers to get to a functional system. I'm had more problems with HP's hardware/software support than Linux on the machine.

[wizard69]

In server Linux yes, but I doubt they care much about Linux graphics stack. Oracle is also invested in Linux for example. And we know their general attitude. So I hope that acquisition won't make things worse.

Well it really depends on the type of server one is building. I would expect that we will see more and more servers with GPU's, especially if the server is destined for non traditional server apps. The GPU won't be used for ""graphics"" so much as compute and AI type applications. These are both of interest to IBM not so much Oracle.

On a side note I wish AMD would get their new GPU's out. I have to wonder how much unreleased information related to the GPU's computer and AI capabilities exists.

[kpedersen]

OpenCL doesn't bare any commonality

Honestly, I am counting down the days until Gnome 3 requires compute capability on the GPU in order to effectively layout gui elements whilst making sure that they do not collide! XD.

This kind of complete and uncalled for bullshit is really complete and uncalled for bullshit.

GNOME3 graphical requirements aren't different from KDE.

KDE4+.

As you know, KDE 3.5 was actually quite responsible with its energy requirement. It is also the reason why Gnome 2 dominated KDE 4 until it died.

My point being that many of us are still entirely dissatisfied with the main Linux desktop environments.

[libv]

Will libv apply?

During the radeonhd project, egbert eich had a futile (in my view, which i stated beforehand, and which got confirmed) phonecall with kevin martin. Here kevin martin claimed that the reason they did not want to cooperate is because i "had been nasty to adam jackson". This either refers to me asking "where was this discussed" a few weeks earlier, exposing the one-sidedness of adams actions, or to me getting pissed at Adam Jackson in july 2006 for using the results of bug-5386 (which introduced dynamic EDID mode selection and freed us all from poking at modes in xorg.conf), for ages and letting the author of the actual code believe that this code had died a silent death and was not worth pursuing (which meant that i returned to my own playground and removed tons of kloc from the unichrome driver to get the overlays sorted). The latter showed me just how this post-xfree86-fork community functioned, views only reinforced by things like RandR1.2 and the nasty radeonhd fork.

Also, in the days after the SuSE round of credit-crunch firings, after FOSDEM 2009, Jan Wildeboer and Dunja Heinrich invited a lot of SuSE people to restaurant Ruhestoerung here in Nuernberg (now closed). Later that evening, i was told that, after i had left, Jan Wildeboer had stated that Adam Jackson had shouted loudly inside redhat that "if libv joins, i quit".

Ajax went as far as hacking the radeonhd repo using fd.o root a year later, and deliberately "overlooked" it in the gitlab conversion last year, yet still is employed by redhat today.

But redhat has a cult of ajax, as seen here, people seem to believe that getting Xorg to build equates to magic, and are willing to have critical bugs stall for weeks on a single persons whims, which only were answered on irc and not in bugzilla. That's just bad culture, and it is amazing that in any major organization, people are getting away with that alone, not counting all the other bs ajax pulled in the community.

So there is no point to me trying, and i am quite certain that i am not the biggest personality problem in this story. There is also no way that Ajax will keep his word on what most of redhat apparently heard him shout in 2009, so nothing will change.

[Bigon]

The Red Hat blog title should be: Red Hat Is Looking To Hire Another who prevents the success of the Linux desktop
The Linux desktop market share would be 99% without Red hat and IBM. Gnome3, wayland, systemd, pulseaudio, networkmanager, polkit and kernel bugs by them are great tools to keep people using windows.

Adding element on the stack to allow non-technical people to easily manage their machine is hindering the expansion of linux desktop usage for such people, sure...

[starshipeleven]

Its kinda funny but the fact that Red Hat is now stuck with the absolute piece of crap that is Gnome3 for their main desktop is possibly the *only* reason why they are looking at developing better GPU drivers to handle its completely absurd graphical requirements.

This kind of complete and uncalled for bullshit is really complete and uncalled for bullshit.

GNOME3 graphical requirements aren't different from KDE. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with either KDE or GNOME3 runs fine and is responsive as normal on an ancient workstation with an integrated ATI Xpress 200 chipset (which supports OpenGL 2.0) that I have around.