begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:32:40PM -0700: [snip] > NVIDIA cards work well on Linux. They are fully programmable (down to > the machine code level) and very fast.
Do they come with documentation for the interface? > They have the best 3D support and > performance in Linux. NVIDIA supports Linux unlike other mfgs. that > provide drivers, but no support. Patronizing vendors who support your user-community is a good thing for the user-community, in the long term. > I have personally worked with NVIDIA > engineers to address problems in their drivers/cards with excellent > response and support (right down to CVS access to un-released drivers). You get access to driver source? That sounds fairly open to me. Sure, third-parties may not be able to re-release the source, but controlling distribution rights isn't always a _bad_ thing. > There is no reason to need a fully Open Source driver. That would be the eventually-free-as-in-beer definition of open source? > The idea that the > kernel is some how tainted when you use a NVIDIA driver is complete BS > and there are very good reasons that the NVIDIA drivers are not > completely Open Source. Give my compilable, readable, and textual source code, and I'm happy. -- But then, console is often good enough... Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
