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nVidia Unified Drivers Including Linux/FreeBSD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

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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  1. "great news for Linux?" by tps12 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure, it's cool that they're getting drivers out the door, especially with nVIDIA's history of buggy drivers. But "almost as fast as Windows" isn't going to cut it. We Linux users are used to, and demand, superior software. Mozilla, Nautilus, XMMS, the GIMP, EMACS...these applications blow away anything available for Windows. 95-99% of Windows speed is "too little, too late."

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  2. Re:in a word... by dinivin · · Score: 0, Troll


    There has been exactly one public release of the FreeBSD drivers, fuckhead. :-)

    That is hardly "regular".

    Dinivin

  3. Re:Supported platforms. by Per+Wigren · · Score: 0, Troll

    Duh... I think he was talking about PPC linux-drivers, not MacOS...

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