While Linux has a well-established reputation as a
server platform, it has also been making substantial inroads into the desktop
environment. This talk will focus upon a particularly exciting aspect of this:
support for hardware-assisted 3D graphics. Daryll will discuss the current
state of 3D hardware support for Linux and the Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI), and open source framework for integrating
hardware-accelerated graphics. Additional topics will include: why open source
is important to infrastructure, why the Linux OpenGL ABI is important, and
where you can track the progress and get involved with the development.
Daryll Strauss is the multimedia and graphics
engineering lead in VA Linux Systems’ Professional Service Division. He’s had
access to the source for his Unix platforms since he did his undergraduate
studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Daryll went on to complete a Master’s
degree in Computer Science for the University of Southern California,
specializing in computer graphics. He spent five years working as a rocket
scientist and developed satellite systems for the Air Force Space Division.
After he spent seven years creating special effects for the motion picture
industry and has credits in two films that received Academy Awards for visual
effects. He built the Linux Alpha cluster used in rendering the film Titanic
and was also responsible for the first hardware accelerated 3D under Linux.
Daryll now spends his time running an excellent group of engineers who develop 3D
capabilities for Linux.
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