Official FreeBSD nVidia Drivers

Hugh writes "The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative has announced that nVidia itself will be releasing a FreeBSD driver for its line of cards. This is excellent news for people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available."

Comments

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is excellent news for people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available.

But ... it already runs in Mac OS X?

Re:Huh?

[foniksonik]

I would conjecture that OS X is the main reason why FreeBSD is getting a port out of nowhere, seeing as how the two are cousins.

The best?

[Ogerman]

people who prefer to [run] Quake on the best OS available.

*BSD isn't the best OS available. Neither is Linux. They each have their strengths and weaknesses. Neither OS is inherently more secure. Neither OS has an absolute performance advantage over the other. Silly trolls. (:

Re:What about XFree86 4?

[Anonymous Coward]

Arguably this it is the case that drivers can be hardware independant. However if you've looked at the nVidia driver for linux, you'll note that there is a fairly sizable kernel module involved. That kernel module obviously won't work with FreeBSD.

Re:Too much support for my tastes..

[coene]

Run OpenBSD, maybe ittl push for these type of things to come our way.

Re:What's the Point?

[evilviper]

Hmm, I refuse to use Windows because:

I don't feel like getting a toop-of-the-line computer every 6 months

I don't like using a platform where problems cannot be fixed short of a re-install

I refuse to pay huge ammounts of money for the OS.

I will not defragment! Nor will I spend tons of money just for a reasonably decent defragmenting program.

I don't like rebooting

I will not spend a week just to disable running services, and configure the basics.

I could go on, but I'm tired of this. And no, this isn't off topic. "This is excellent news for people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available." is in the main story.