Bumblebee 3.0 "Tumbleweed" is out! The Bumblebee Project proudly presents version 3.0 of Bumblebee, a project aiming to support NVIDIA Optimus technology under Linux. After two months of hard work this version has finally been considered stable enough for release. If you thought that Bumblebee was dead, it's still alive and kicking! See http://wiki.bumblebee-project.org/FAQ The project has been fully rewritten in the C programming language, providing increased performance and reliability, mostly thanks to a new developer in the project, Jaron Viëtor (a.k.a. Thulinma). That bring the number of main developers to 4, the three other ones being Peter Wu (a.k.a. Lekensteyn), Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía (a.k.a. Samsagax) and Bruno Pagani (a.k.a. ArchangeGabriel). The most important new feature is automatic power management support. Yes, in Bumblebee 3.0 "Tumbleweed", you've got Power Management working out of the box, without any manual configuration needed. That's not the only one though, the full changelog could be found at http://bumblebee-project.org/release-notes-3.0 This rewrite of the project was an occasion for updating available documentations, wikis and instructions that can be found on the web. However, please be aware that we cannot update all sites that exist and that a lot misinformation is still spread. The best way to be sure to have the latest instructions is checking our wiki at http://wiki.bumblebee-project.org or follow us at Twitter http://bumblebee-project.org/twitter, Facebook http://bumblebee-project.org/facebook or Google Plus http://bumblebee-project.org/g+. Currently, packages for ArchLinux, Ubuntu and Mandriva have been packaged. Below are installation instructions for some distributions: Arch Linux:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee Ubuntu:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee Mandriva: There's a bumblebee package in their repositories. Other distributions can find more generic installation instructions at http://wiki.bumblebee-project.org/Install-and-usage We currently do not accept donations. The Paypal account referred by the tinyurl "Bumblebee Project" belongs to Martin Juhl (MrMEEE), which was a former developer of Bumblebee (he is now working on his own fork, Ironhide). If you still have too much money, consider bribing an NVIDIA employee. Joking :) The team is looking for users having the necessary knowledge to build packages for other popular distributions, if you're interested please join #bumblebee-dev on Freenode. We'll then link our documentation to the one from your distribution. Now that Bumblebee 3.0 has been released, we will continue improving it. Therefore we seek developers experienced in building Compositing Window Managers, a goal we want to achieve for version (far).(away). If you run into problems, be sure to read http://wiki.bumblebee-project.org/Troubleshooting. Although we aim at stability, (compatibility) issues may still occur which can be reported by following the instructions on http://wiki.bumblebee-project.org/Reporting-Issues.
We hope you enjoy it. The Bumblebee Project Team. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
