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The Tuesday 2007-05-15 at 17:26 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > It would be interesting to know which video driver each of the kernel
> > developers use when they themselves do not permit the distribution of
> > the video drivers..?
>
> There are enough free video drivers available, if you don't need 3D.
> Kernel developers typically don't need 3D, and even for that some open
> source drivers exist (radeon (Ugh!), intel).
> No, they are typically not fast enough for recent games. Kernel
> developers typically don't care, because they don't play these games
> - I can't blame them, it's about interests and priorities.
>
> Note that quite some kernel developers don't even use X, just
> framebuffer consoles.
And probably they code using a teleprinter - uh, no, I'm off by a few
ages, now they will use something more modern, like... mmm.... vi :-p
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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