The SLI Godfather

CaptCanuk writes "Phoronix has an insightful article about the motivation behind Nvidia's alternative operating system support. From the article: 'When it comes time for a user to upgrade their computer hardware, and decide to go with a choice from a leading manufacturer of graphics solutions, software support is a given, correct? Wrong.' Read on to find out what truly funds their development and why some think they treat Linux as a second hand citizen."

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Another topic

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In addition to the various things mentioned in the article, I feel that another topic for pondering is the possibility that SLI may, or may not, ever see the official light of day under FreeBSD. While NVIDIA's code is similar between Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD, there seems to be no corporate customer at this point -- or even the appropriate lobbying for a free port. It is over three months since Linux and Solaris SLI have co-existed and to this point we have heard no official word from NVIDIA representatives in regards to this matter. Inside the FreeBSD i386 user's manual, the same SLI page as what was found in the Linux and Solaris manuals can be found, but this support has yet to be mentioned in their official release notes.