Re: nvidia

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Anders Karlsson wrote:

What Les would like is a Fedora on a more stable (as in driver/module INTERNAL API).

The discussion always seems to morph here, for some reason. CentOS/RHEL provide API stability (in general) across the entire OS, down to the version numbers. Fedora doesn't provide this, for any package, including the kernel. The kernel's module/driver INTERNAL interface changes regularly, sometimes for no good reason it seems.
This is an upstream kernel development problem, not a Fedora one.

Agreed, which is why I earlier in the thread suggested that the
discussion would be better off on the LKML, where the kernel people
that makes those decisions could explain it to the people arguing the
point about this.

No, the kernel people are and should be free to write total garbage. The distributions shouldn't ship that to unsuspecting users, though.

FOSS and proprietary software are not and will not be mutually exclusive, despite some folks misplaced idealism.

There is a distinction to be made. When you talk about proprietary,
closed source, drivers - then people should be aware that they not
just may, they *will*, get strong reactions.

I happen to love my 1st gen tivo. I suppose you'll try to tell me its a bad thing that they exist.

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