If you want to do high-performance computing in the GPU in Linux, you pretty much need both the proprietary drivers *and* proprietary HPC libraries from the vendors. For a variety of reasons I don't expect that to change. There's been some steps towards opening those things up, but I have never been able to get them to run in *any* Linux distro *ever*. It's not Fedora or Ubuntu or openSUSE - it's the vendors. On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Steven Rosenberg <stevenhrosenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:41 AM, Enrico Tagliavini > <enrico.tagliavini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> well you might be lucky enough not to need proprietary drivers and >> this add a lot of benefits both in practical terms and also in ethics >> if you believe in free software. That said if you don't support >> proprietary driver you basically cut out people from using Fedora. The >> only and main reason I don't suggest Fedora to my friends starting >> with Linux is it misses NVIDIA proprietary drivers support and >> bumblebee packages [1]. Granted there is rpmfusion for the drivers.... >> but bumblebee is another story. The repo mentioned in the fedora wiki >> is not really up to quality standard, at all. But I digress. > > > > RPM Fusion support for Nvidia seems OK, but support for Catalyst/fglrx has > been nonexistent in Fedora 20-22. > > My hardware (2013 HP laptop) eventually "aged out" of needing > fglrx/Catalyst, and running the open Radeon is less trouble, for sure. But > for new hardware, it's sure nice to have Catalyst (and I presume Nvidia) > around and packaged. > > But I've accepted that the Fedora Project doesn't want proprietary graphics > drivers in its archive, and would really (really, really) prefer that its > users refrain from using them. > > Even when packaged by RPM Fusion, the Catalyst driver is a pain to use in > Fedora because the kernel is updating so frequently. Installing it from > upstream is even worse. > > Luckily Radeon driver and Linux kernel development moves so fast that after > a year I was able to successfully run w/o Catalyst. But that first year was > hell. > > I've been running Fedora on this laptop since F18 because it was the best on > this hardware at the time, and I love Fedora. But if Catalyst was important > to me, I'd be looking elsewhere (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu ...). > > While Fedora is plenty stable overall, it's not so stable when running > Catalyst because AMD is so far behind and Fedora is moving so quickly, so > for those reasons -- plus Radeon's great strides in recent years -- I don't > miss it. > > But there is no love for Catalyst among Fedora contributors, or somebody > would be packaging it for RPM Fusion. > > -- > Steven Rosenberg > http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog > http://blogs.dailynews.com/click > > > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- OSJourno: Robust Power Tools for Digital Journalists http://www.znmeb.mobi/stories/osjourno-robust-power-tools-for-digital-journalists Remember, if you're traveling to Bactria, Hump Day is Tuesday and Thursday. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
