Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Furoran Rushuru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Can NVIDIA's binary only drivers be included in cooker / 7.1? Or at least in
> > contrib?
> >
> > The licence on nvidia's site - http://www.nvidia.com/drivers/xfree86_40.html
> > - seems to be very restrictive
> >
> > However I guess that many people would like to have 3D support with their
> > TnT/Geforce working right out of the box. Newbies for example may have
> > troubles installing it, since the binary files on nvidia's site only work
> > with Redhat's 6.1 2.2.12-20 kernel
>
> For the moment, MandrakeSoft does not include binary drivers. And include
> of non-free software is very restricted [netscape and xv for the moment].
>
> It may change, but we believe it's a very good policy for Linux'
> distribution makers.
I'd just would add that company making binary only driver aren't following
the linux philosophy...
Which lead to -> do not buy anything from theses company.
--
-- Yoann http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~yoann/
It is well known that M$ product don't make a free() after a malloc(),
the unix community wish them good luck for their future developement.
