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An absolutely massive interactive HTML-based graphic shows the timeline of your favorite Linux distributions.  With the left side presenting 1992′s Debian, Redhat, and SLS, it shows how the various distributions we know today came into existence.  Follow the lines to the right as they branch into CentOS, Fedora, Tinfoil Hat, Knoppix, Freespire, and many many more.  Click on each name to be taken to the home site for that selected distribution.

A great way to visualize the massive fork and merge trees of Linux.

GNU/Linux distro timeline.

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Some major news on the Linux Graphics front this weekend coming from some developers on the Gallium3D project.  Over the weekend, Luca Barbieri committed code adding a DirectX 10 and 11 “state tracker” to the project, offering some basic DX10 and DX11 support.  It’s far from feature-complete, but its’ the first steps toward bring the popular Windows-based gaming API to Linux.

Unlike other options integrated into tools like Wine, this new code does not merely translate between DirectX and OpenGL, but rather goes from DirectX direct to the hardware, making it much faster than the alternatives.  I would think such a solution would be less portable, but they claim it makes it ‘essentially free to All Linux Drivers’.

For those thinking that Direct3D 10/11 on Linux will be sub-par, “Finally, a mature Direct3D 10/11 implementation is intrinsically going to be faster and more reliable than an OpenGL implementation, thanks to the dramatically smaller API and the segregation of all nontrivial work to object creation that the application must perform ahead of time.”

via [Phoronix] Direct3D 10/11 Is Now Natively Implemented On Linux!.

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A beta of the 3DCoat modeling program for Linux is now available for download.  It currently only works on 64-bit systems, but a 32-bit version is expected soon.

If you’re not familiar with 3DCoat, you can see VizWorld’s previous coverage (including video tutorials) here.

3D-Coat V3 for Linux (beta) – 3D Coat Forums.

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GizmoStyle has gathered five videos that are finalists in the “We’re Linux” video campaign contest.  Two of them are some fairly impressive animation work.

We’ve all seen the various Mac v PC ads but no Linux ads as of yet. And why would we? – Linux does not have the bank balance to finance Hollywood style adverts – remember Microsofts Jerry Seinfeld ad campaign? $10 million for what? Well, that’s all about to change as Linux have announced five finalists who have made adverts for their ‘We’re Linux’ video campaign. I must admit, they probably aren’t TV ready…..yet. We’ll see what Linux decide to do when they announce the winner tomorrow (Wednesday evening Pacific Time).

The two animations after the break.

via GizmoStyle // We Love The Web : Linux enters the I’m A Mac/I’m A PC row with ‘We’re Linux’.

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