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NVidia Releases Linux Drivers Supporting 4K Stacks

Posted by simoniker on from the stack-em-up dept.

Supermathie writes "NVidia has finally released drivers for their chipsets and the 2.6 kernel that support 4K stacks. That means compatability with Fedora Core 2 kernels, people! View the README, visit their driver page, or download the package."

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  1. Re:Real Story...NOT INSIGHTFUL by 0racle · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    No, the 'zealots' want to tell you what you can and can not do with your system just as much as anyone else, they just hide that fact behind 'free' software. Don't believe me?

    Richard Stallman:
    It may be worth mentioning that the GNU Project urges people to refuse to work with Sun, and to instead use the free alternatives to the non-free Sun software.
    When I want freedom I'll work with whomever I damn well please.
    Richard Stallman:
    We need to replace these proprietary software products, not use them.
    You have to use what works, FOSS doesn't have decent replacements for most things, sorry RMS there's work to be done, we don't all get free grant money.
    Remember those rental systems where you don't really own your system?
    Richard Stallman:
    I proposed a tax on computer supplies and equipment as one possible way to fund free software development.
    I guess the grants don't give him enough free money.
    RMS, being the quintessential zealot has also stated that people should replace all closed software with FOSS even when it doesn't have the same capabilities, and encouraged people to never ever have a hand in writing proprietary software. RMS wants the power to tell you how to work, and how to use your system. He wants to be the one to tell you what is right and what is wrong as regards software, and what you do with it.

    Quotes taken from here.
    --
    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
  2. The Shiny Objects Factor by RPoet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's the Shiny Objects Factor. Please are gamers, and they try to be pro-free software at the same time. So they gladly install binary-only, proprietary, unfree device drivers to be able to see Shiny Objects on screen, in the process throwing out all their precious principles momentarily, spitting in the face of everything that made Linux possible.

    Real free software followers choose freedom over Shiny Objects.

    --
    "Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.