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3 unusual facts about Free and open-source graphics device driver


Free and open-source graphics device driver

Vivante is a fabless semiconductor company which licenses SIP cores.

The functional blocks (i.e. the display driver ASIC, the 3D acceleration ASIC, the 2D acceleration ASIC, Video decoding and Video encoding ASIC) are separate SIP (SIP) blocks, since the hardware devices are very different from each other.

Imagination Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company which licenses SIP cores.


ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software

(This restriction means that ACM TOMS software is not Free and open-source software according to The Free Software Definition or The Open Source Definition.)

Plink

Plink (PuTTY Link) is a free and open-source (MIT license) command-line network connection tool similar to UNIX ssh written by Simon Tatham, author of another popular terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application name PuTTY It is mostly used for automated operations, such as making CVS access a repository on a remote server.


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