Open nVidia Linux Driver Pledge Nearly Complete

Ciarán Mooney writes to let us know that the Pledgebank drive to raise $10,000 for Project Nouvaeu is almost complete — at this moment it needs only 196 more people to sign up. Project Nouveau aims to provide open source 3D acceleration for nVidia cards. The drive was started by David Nielsen, whose blog explains what he hopes will happen.

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finnaly

[Anonymous Coward]

takes forever to get or do anything on linux..

Re:What is wrong with the proprietary driver?

[Kalriath]

According to the pledgebank website,

[...]leaving the many users of their videocards on popular UN*X systems such as Linux with only the option of using a 2d only driver or using nvidia' notorious proprietary driver. What is wrong with using nVidia's drivers for nVidia's cards? Is there some issue with the nVidia 3D driver implementation that would encourage an open-source reverse-engineering effort? What does "notorious proprietary" mean? I'm all for open-source, but this just seems to be OSFOSS (open-source for open-sources sake). I agree. I mean, holy crap people on Linux might have to be in the same boat as people on Windows and use binary drivers! Oh no! It's just another case of those people who think that every piece of software should be accompanied with makefiles and require GCC to run.

It's not nVidia.

[Anonymous Coward]

Gah! It's NVIDIA, not nVidia. It's never been nVidia. Ever. Not ever. Not once. Never in the history of NVIDIA has it been nVidia. Check with the Wayback Machine if you don't believe me.

Re:Plenty is wrong with the proprietary driver

[cperciva]

Having a driver for Linux 2.6.y doesn't necessarily imply you have a driver for Linux 2.6.z, let alone Linux 2.8 or 2.4.

This sounds like an incredibly good reason to not use Linux.