On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:19 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Nobody can write code that always survives changes in non-standard > interfaces. Nvidia's drivers for OS's that provide stable interfaces > work fine. I think you mean os's that don't track upstream. > > > Which > > is hardly Fedora's fault; > > Well, it is a generic Linux problem, If by "the changes are upstream" then yes. > but fedora could make it easier for > the users by not pushing out interface changes without coordinating with > driver providers. This "driver" provider has repeatedly in the past not cared one whit what Fedora does or doesn't do. Waiting for them to catch up would mean never moving past a RHEL release. If instead they worked with the upstreams, this wouldn't be a problem. > > > if nvidia would get with the program and make > > Free and Open drivers, then maybe they could be fixed. > > Probably not - they would just be in the same shape as firewire and scsi > drivers that go months/years with bugs that don't get fixed. Except now there would be more people that would have access and ability to fix them. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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