nVidia Unified Drivers Including Linux/FreeBSD

Screaming Lunatic writes "nVidia has decided to include Linux and FreeBSD in their Unified Driver Architecture and offer more tech support. Sounds like great news for Linux developers and users if Linux drivers are released at the same time as Windows drivers. (The NV30 emulation driver for Linux was made available about 3 months later than for Windows) The big push is probably from big studios that use Linux tools such as Film Gimp. More info here ." Added by Heunique: You might want to look here if you are using the latest development kernel.

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Re:"great news for Linux?"

[Chicane-UK]

Superior software?

Time to lose some Karma here, but bullshit. I love Linux, and I think it is a truely great platform - but the way I see it is that a large majority of Linux applications are clones of Windows applications, and quite frankly they are rarely as fast, functional, or reliable.

Mozilla - very good, feature packed, but no way near as good as IE - it pains me to say it, but everyone harps on about the fact that IE doesnt support all the standards that Mozilla does. But if people dont seem to be coding in those standards, and are using the broken Microsoft ones, then what the hell is the point? IE belts along at a pace I have yet to see Mozilla keep up with, and it renders every website correctly, regardless of whether its using an incorrect standard to do it or what.

Nautilus - pretty but terribly slow - and to be quite honest, frustrating to use. I prefer just regular old GNOME with none of the Nautilus stuff bolted on.

XMMS - better than what? Winamp? I dont think so... XMMS is a superb application, but again is missing so many things that make Winamp truely great.

I wont comment on the rest as I dont use them regularly enough to make informed comments on them.