The concern being that unix systems are dynamic, it is what gives them their strength, what makes them powerful and secure. The availability of code allows for the most powerful systems to integrate togther. Providing static binaries make either the system or the driver unusable in a dynamic environment (something all operating systems are moving towards). Providing source code availabillity of nVidia drivers can only open and expand the use of nVidia drivers and hardware, increasing exponentially the ammount of developmental work produced with and for this hardware, which in turn popularizes its use. -Paul Rodr�guez On 18 Sep 2001 10:12:06 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2001 07:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > escribi�: > > Hi, > > > > I don't know what I am doing different, but I have an nVidia GeForce > > II on an card made by Asus (I think it is the V7700), and I have > > ABSOLUTELY no problems with it; > > > Anyways, I was just posting this to let people who are on the market > > know that the GeForce II DOES work with LM8 (beautifully in fact), > > The latest nVidia drivers for LM 8.0 were compiled against kernel > 2.4.3-20mdk and Xfree86 4.0.2. If you don't change anything they > probly will work. They did for me even with XF-4.1.x. Then as I > upgraded to newer kernels, XF versions, and objectprelink'd KDE2.2.1, > and other upgrades (basically to LM 8.1) they became completely broken. > > This is one problem with closed source drivers. You never know when > even a minor security or bugfix update will break them, much less other > upgrades. There is no way for Mandrake to support them because nVidia > refuses to share the source with Linux developers. OTOH, they do submit > their driver source to M$. > > Other problems with closed source drivers are security related, and > the added dependence on nVidia to provide future updates. If you want > to upgrade to 8.1 when it comes out (it's RC1 right now), you'll most > likely break the current nVidia drivers. There's also no guarantee, > that future nVidia drivers will work with 8.1. They weren't smart > enough to use the current LM 8.0 kernel and XF version. > -- > Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA > Admiral Yamamoto: "I fear that all we have done is to awaken a > sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve." > > > ------------=_1000826039-7607-4513 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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