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."
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)
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]
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...
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.
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 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?
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".
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?
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".
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...
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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