Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com
You can see the polygons on the page have smooth edges. That's what Cairo does; it's a high-quality 2D library. It's also output-neutral: the Mozilla people have had trouble generating pages for printing since, well, years ago, and Cairo nicely solves part of the issue. And this is all in software, none of this requires 3D anything.
Thanks for the explanations. So, if I understand correctly, Cairo is in a similar space to Display PostScript and Display PDF, but uses GL to draw and use the graphics processor as much as possible.
[...] Are there similar sites to r300.sf.net for other manufacturers, or any overview site?
No, not really, it's a mess. [...]
Are others willing to help create one? I think I could program it fairly quickly. What information is interesting? type manufacturer model PCI id related free software site(s) comment(s) rating more?
(Data would be under GPL too, so we could add the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO data, if wanted.)