Le jeudi 13 juillet 2006 à 07:16 +0200, Lourens Veen a écrit : > 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..." In this case, it´s not the problem between proprietary and openess. What's happend each time Apple provides a set of patches ? Most of the times everything runs well after the upgrade. Hence, in this related case, simply nVidia don´t want or cannot follow the kernel Linux, but apparently he´s more keen to follow Apple. (Not sure that, the fact that Darwin is a micro-kernel make all the difference) > > Him: "Yeah, well, there's no other way to get 3D acceleration with my > card..." > > Lourens > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
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