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[Ars] Nvidia seeks peace with Linux, pledges help on open source driver

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#1 ·
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Originally Posted by Jon Brodkin
Few companies have been the target of as much criticism in the Linux community as Nvidia. Linus Torvalds himself last year called Nvidia the "single worst company" Linux developers have ever worked with, giving the company his middle finger in a public talk.

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Nvidia is now trying to get on Linux developers' good side. Yesterday, Nvidia's Andy Ritger e-mailed developers of Nouveau, an open source driver for Nvidia cards that is built by reverse engineering Nvidia's proprietary drivers. Ritger wrote that "NVIDIA is releasing public documentation on certain aspects of our GPUs, with the intent to address areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau. We intend to provide more documentation over time, and guidance in additional areas as we are able."
Nvidia seeks peace with Linux, pledges help on open source driver

Pics at the source if you don't believe it happened. Hope something good comes of this though.
 
#4 ·
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Originally Posted by MattGordon View Post

If nvidia gets a huge foothold than wouldn't that make them a better choice for a SteamOS box?
Quite the strategic move. However, SteamOS is 'Downloadable soon.'
Nevertheless, it is a good sign and I am looking forward to the further development of nouveau.

[Perhaps an apology for the finger might be due. heh]
 
#5 ·
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Originally Posted by MattGordon View Post

If nvidia gets a huge foothold than wouldn't that make them a better choice for a SteamOS box?
Why?
Also this seems like a reaction to steam box/Steam OS as linux has been around for an age. Too little too late? Only time will tell.
 
#6 ·
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Originally Posted by Darklyric View Post

good now amd needs to follow suite and ill will donate 10$ to steam for making their os worthy of gaming and streaming ect and we all win (not the nsa maybe)
Last time I checked AMD has been providing drivers for a while now.... *double checks their website* Yep, there is a 32 bit and a 64 bit driver for Linux on their site...
 
#9 ·
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Originally Posted by Darklyric View Post

good now amd needs to follow suite and ill will donate 10$ to steam for making their os worthy of gaming and streaming ect and we all win (not the nsa maybe)
Actually, it was stated yesterday that AMD has something big to announce today during their Live Stream that happens in about 5.5 hours. In it they stated that they have an announcement about LINUX.

OCN posting

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#11 ·
It's not brilliant, when you consider this -
* Give the documentation to open-source
* Bring their standard up to match pripriatory
* Stop developing propriatory
* ??????
* PROFIT!!!

(and I mean profit literally, as they cut developer costs)

I might be in the minority, but I couldn't care less if the drivers are open-source or not. I just want the best performance, whatever the method.
 
#12 ·
This move is absolutely not motivated by SteamOS's coming release. It's out of good faith and not driven by money. lol
 
#13 ·
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Originally Posted by chemicalfan View Post

I might be in the minority, but I couldn't care less if the drivers are open-source or not. I just want the best performance, whatever the method.
This.

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Originally Posted by Kaldari View Post

This move is absolutely not motivated by SteamOS's coming release. It's out of good faith and not driven by money. lol
I take it you work for free and everyone gives you a place to live, a car to drive, a computer, internet and electricity to play with and food to eat for free ... no money needed?
rolleyes.gif


Welcome to the real world, where the notion of a Star Trek "Federation" is still just a pipe dream ... and even in there, there is still "Gold Pressed Latinum".
 
#14 ·
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Originally Posted by 47 Knucklehead View Post

I take it you work for free and everyone gives you a place to live, a car to drive, a computer, internet and electricity to play with and food to eat for free ... no money needed?
rolleyes.gif


Welcome to the real world, where the notion of a Star Trek "Federation" is still just a pipe dream ... and even in there, there is still "Gold Pressed Latinum".
Where did you pull all that from? (rhetorical)

I was obviously referring to the bad blood between Linus and Nvidia.

 
#16 ·
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Originally Posted by DEW21689 View Post

Last time I checked AMD has been providing drivers for a while now.... *double checks their website* Yep, there is a 32 bit and a 64 bit driver for Linux on their site...
There are proprietary NVIDIA drivers too, but this is about the open source drivers.
 
#17 ·
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Originally Posted by chemicalfan View Post

It's not brilliant, when you consider this -
* Give the documentation to open-source
* Bring their standard up to match pripriatory
* Stop developing propriatory
* ??????
* PROFIT!!!

(and I mean profit literally, as they cut developer costs)

I might be in the minority, but I couldn't care less if the drivers are open-source or not. I just want the best performance, whatever the method.
I definitely agree, but at the same time, anything that gets gaming away from windows, I am onboard.
 
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