I blogged a few months ago about performance improvements in nouveau, the free 3D driver for NVIDIA cards. This morning I tested with nouveau ddx from git, drm master from git and kernel 2.6.24-rc6 and used the gtkperf benchmark.
Nouveau 2007-07-13: 25.24s
Nouveau 2007-12-30: 17.88s
Quite an incredible increase in speed.
On another note, I've been able to resize my screen for the first time using the normal driver, although using experimental Randr12 mode I get this:
Today I released PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.1.5.
PackageKit release notes.
gnome-packagekit release notes.
Tarballs available here.
You know you are tired when you start finishing normal sentences with semicolons;
As soon as you find you've done it a few times in one evening, you know you've been coding a little too long;
Any HIG dudes got a few minutes? The gnome-packagekit project has quite a few glade files that were quickly designed, and hence the GNOME HIG wasn't a primary concern. Now the applications are being used by more and more people I think it's important that we properly conform to the HIG.
If anyone wants to help out, please join the mailing list and send us a quick email. There's also a lot of other easy stuff to do in the TODO file if you have a spare few minutes. Thanks!
Richard.
I normally don't get political on this blog but it has all got too much. Hazel Blears is Member of Parliament (Labour) for Salford in the UK. She's also Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
She's one of those people that listening to is like running your nails down a chalky blackboard. She's in a powerful position and comes up with some very crazy ideas. She really scares me.
Now I feel much better.