On Wednesday 12 July 2006 22:07, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 7/12/06, Petter Urkedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2006-07-12, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > Should I infer from the silence that everyone thinks that the > > > last draft I posted will get accepted? :) > > > > I think it looks good. I will just second a few points... > > > > o Why closed-source drivers are a problem > > > > In my opinion stability is the most important point. When using a > > proprietary driver for my current card, I have about 2 crashes a > > month. That's weird to me, since I know the distributors pick out > > well tested and rock stable kernels. Someone who is new to Linux > > may not have the same expectation, and may never try to disable the > > proprietary graphics driver, so Linux gets the blame. > > We need to remember to include this in the full speech.
Here's another. We have a number of computers running GNU/Linux in our dorm, most of them (K)Ubuntu. There were some security updates yesterday, and I mentioned that I'd updated my machine as well as the one in our livingroom. My neighbour, who had an important presentation to give that day, said he hadn't yet updated his machine, preferring to do that when he didn't need it for something important. The following conversation followed: Me: "Well, the only thing they change is a few lines of code to fix the bug, so the chances of breaking something are incredibly low. I've never had any problems." Him: "Well, last time I upgraded the kernel, the proprietary nVidia driver stopped working and I was left with an unusable system." Me: "Aha, right. I told you you shouldn't be using evil and proprietary drivers..." Him: "Yeah, well, there's no other way to get 3D acceleration with my card..." Lourens
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