AGEIA still is refraining from responding on whether PhysX is delaying Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux? However, next month at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, I will be asking them in person and see what they say... Hopefully the UT3 Linux client will be out before then though.

As an update to my last post there is now a growing gap between 1st and 2nd place for the most Diggs and front-page stories in the Linux/UNIX section. Thanks in part to the AIGLX-bearing 8.42 driver and GIMP 2.4. Right now we've have 57 front-page stories and a little over 38,000 Diggs.

In addition to the Digg goodness, the Phoronix rank in Technorati broke the top 3,000 last night (that is, if you consider Phoronix a blog).

Back during JavaOne 2007 one of the companies I had met with was Pervasive Software. One of the interesting products they were working on at the time (and still is in beta) is Pervasive DataRush. Pervasive liked what what was said about their Java multi-threaded framework and the Phoronix coverage even appeared in their Company's Annual Report :)

In the next month or two, we will be rolling out our next generation Phoronix Content Management System (PHXCMS-7) and with that it will lay the framework to support some very exciting expansions in our eventual road to producing Linux-related podcasts and other forms of media. Aside from PHXCMS-7 sporting a slightly redesigned interface, we are looking to introduce more bloggers. That's where you can come into play. If you are interested in blogging for Phoronix about Linux hardware or software or another open-source niche, contact me. There's still lots of details to be finalized regarding when exactly we will be rolling out Phoronix blogs in this new format, the criteria we are looking for, and how we'll be handling everything, but if you're interested let me know with a short explanation of why you're interested and your background. Contributors, of course, will be compensated for their work.

We are also looking to roll out Phoronix in other languages by the end of the calendar year or in early 2008. If you have any other ideas, proposals, or suggestions, I would enjoy hearing them.

One exciting day on the ATI/AMD front! All of the questions on the 8.41 driver are being answered in the Phoronix Forums so please ask your questions there instead of emailing me, but here's three e-mail answers already.

Hi Mike!

Great articles, but where's the CrossFire 8.41 benchmarks!? Very ecstatic about all this news today but would like to game in multiple gpus :D :D Great job with the articles.

Adam

Thanks for the kind words.

CrossFire is not supported by the new Linux driver, nor would I expect ATI to support CrossFire under Linux anytime in the near future. NVIDIA supports Scalable Link Interface (SLI) with Linux and right now its benefits (performance wise) are in shambles.

Michael:

Quick question...You didn't mention anything about video playback or if there would be XvMC support. Will there be such support or an article talking about it?

Video playback is still done through X-Video with TexturedVideo. A video playback article wasn't planned but could be added to the ever-growing TODO list.

Hi,

My company is looking to invest into new workstations that use only a free software stack. Is what LWN.net is reporting true about ATI specifications?

James

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