The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel

Posted on 2020-10-12 [Monday] by jj5

This popped up on Hacker News today: The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel. I wonder if we can infer from this that AMD Radeon graphics cards are well supported on Linux..? I might buy one for my next workstation…

Intel Linux graphics firmware

Posted on 2017-04-28 [Friday] by jj5

I got this error on my Debian Stretch system:

i915 0000:00:02.0: firmware: failed to load i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin (-2)

I found instructions to fix the error here.

Reading about UX patterns from Microsoft. Particularly Branding your Windows Store apps.

Posted on 2012-11-05 [Monday] by jj5

Learning about the Raphaël—JavaScript Library. This can be used to do animations and drawing in HTML documents.