I couldn't agree more with the sentiment. And to further this. IMHO given the capabiliteis of the card and the driver and the capabilities of both and the info available in the blogs. The nVidia card and proprietary drivers are still the very best option for Xorg in terms of making the most of the system. Nothing comes close to accomodating as many features that are available to Xorg. Wine compositing, multiheaded display, tv (crt) only. These features work and they work reasonably well. Eli On Thursday 17 December 2009 00:32:12 Linuxguy123 wrote: > One other thing bothers me about knocking people for using the > proprietary nVidia driver: nVidia didn't thumb their nose at Linux. > > Sure, we now have nouveau. But for a long time we didn't. And luckily > for us, nVidia provided us with a Linux driver. No, it wasn't perfect. > And it wasn't open source. And the build/install process was... err... > > But it worked ! It allowed us to run Linux on machines with nVidia > hardware in ways that we wouldn't otherwise been able to. I could > mention many, many other hardware vendors that didn't do this much ! > > And furthermore, they aren't hindering the nouveau process. I know > they aren't actively helping it, but you have to remember how > competitive the graphics card industry is and some of their advantage > might be the IP in the driver. You can't blame them for keeping that > secret. Its not like they are promoting a vendor lock in situation. > > I see that nVidia has just released 190-53 and that it appears to > address some Linux specific concerns. Before we complain about how bad > nVidia is, we might reflect on how much worse it could have been. > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
