Valve Hires X11 Veteran Keith Packard To Work On The Linux Display Stack

[willmore]

I'm glad to see Keith out of HP and back to working on something useful. He was too good of a person to waste there.

[Danny3]

Valve is really smart improving Linux performance for games.
There are and will be many more people looking for an alternative for their Windows 8 Metro crap and Windows 10 spyware crap when they get tired of things shoved down their throat by Microsoft.
It's really nice to see that Linux will be a viable alternative for me too when I will be finally leaving Windows 7.
Good job Valve!
And thank you very much!

[bregma]

Nice catch, Valve.

[FishPls]

Good stuff. Valve is awesome.

[swoorup]

Valve the innovating company, that benefits everyone

[bison]

Phoronix: Valve Hires X11 Veteran Keith Packard To Work On The Linux Display Stack

Valve's latest high-profile hire is adding Keith Packard to their roster of Linux graphics driver developers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-Keith-Packard

So I'm guessing that The Machine went the way of Taligent, Copland and Pink.

(For anyone under 30: that's not the name of a law firm.)

[cl333r]

Good news, though Keith is switching jobs faster than me changing my underwear.

[faph]

It's interesting to hear that they are still hiring additional open-source graphics driver developers as well. Interesting that they are interested in shader compiler performance when the ...

That's interesting (and cool)!

[dungeon]

Ah, good luck at Valve Keith.

[faph]

Well yes, shader cache is only a workaround (a nice one but still).

The shader cache isn't "only a workaround". If you want fast loading times there is no way around shader cache. Also Valve wants to ship pre-compiled shaders in the future (tarceri mentioned it the other day on #radeon). So the shader cache is here to stay and that's good!