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Accelerated nVidia Drivers for FreeBSD

Posted by michael on from the bring-out-all-the-freebsd-games dept.

zero0w writes "nVidia has released the official OpenGL accelerated driver set for FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE. Check out the nVidia Driver page for more detail. According to the page, this release should be considered as initial beta. So don't count on it to build a day-to-day production system, yet."

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  1. well it is about time! by JDizzy · · Score: 2, Troll

    We BSD folk have been waitting for this, because we like to play Quake too! The bad part is where are the drivers? Nvidia's web page only show's the Finux variety. Hopefully the website will update soon. There is no mention of this on the FreeBSD -stable mail-list from any Nvidia folks, so I'm a bit skeptable. The only mention on the FreeBSD list thus far is also pointing to the same website, with not metion of FreeBSD driveres.

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  2. So what? by No+inspiration · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't mean to troll, but are there any _existing_ applications / games that would benefit from this?

  3. Netcraft Reports: BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save *BSD from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

  4. Re:FreeBSD != Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thank you. Nobody but a wanker who is making a point out of using BSD just because it is not linux would have noticed that.

    Now I just can't wait for all the whiny little bitches who say "if only they would release the source - but as it stands this is against my principles! I shall have to continue using my Tseng Labs ET4000, with drivers reverse engineered by RMS over a 15 year period and currently standing at 0.01a. And I know if the framerate isn't good enough then I (or my mum, when she has done my washing) can just rewrite them, for I have the source!"

  5. Source code... nVidia... by pVoid · · Score: 0, Troll
    Not that I believe nVidia should be giving out the source code, but I must admit, I'm *really* really curious to see what their source would look like.

    nVidia is probably my favorite 'huge' company in the world. They are just simply righteous.

    Kudos to them really.

  6. Production System? by den_erpel · · Score: 2, Troll

    So don't count on it to build a day-to-day production system

    I am using GNU/Linux for quite some years now and have moved to the NVidia drivers fairly early.

    You should not run _any_ production system with the NVidia drivers,they are the cause of the most system crashes. Not even for the tried and tested GNU/Linux platform :(

    Come to think of it, why would you want 3D support on a production system :) Would you trust anyone running Q3 on your file server ;) Just leave off X alltogether ;)

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  7. Re:Linux drivers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    RTFM FAG LAMER!
    >Still anytime you have to you go in and edit a ?>config file, you lose half your users.
    Fuck You!