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NVIDIA's Andy Ritger On Linux Drivers

Posted by kdawson on from the straight-dope dept.

tykev writes "The Director of Unix Software at NVIDIA talks about Linux drivers, planned features, development cycle, and the open source Nouveau driver. (The interview is in English but all the comments are in Czech.) Quoting: 'NVIDIA's stance is to neither help nor hinder Nouveau. We are committed to supporting Linux through a) an open source 2d "nv" X driver which NVIDIA engineers actively maintain and improve, and b) our fully featured proprietary Linux driver which leverages common code with the other platforms that NVIDIA supports.'"

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  1. Re:Move along, nothing to see here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Still no 3D support without having to use a proprietary (closed) driver. Wake me up when that changes.

    Sure thing, Mr. Rip Van Winckle!

  2. Re:Move along, nothing to see here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    you can never get 3D in a computer monitor, they have height and width there is no depth, although some fancy graphics can simulate that third dimension however it is not real, i say let Nvidia develop 2D to the best of its abilities and let the game developers continue to fool idiots in to thinking there is a third dimension on their 2D monitors...

  3. What a crazy world we live in by east+coast · · Score: 3, Funny

    The interview is in English but all the comments are in Czech

    Stop the planet. I want to get off!

    From now on I vow that when I code the code will be in English but the comments will be in Slovak.

    --
    Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
  4. Re:Nouveau by jdschulteis · · Score: 5, Funny

    No open source is ever "complete", for good and for worse :) Even a dead open source project is only "temporary dead"! (whatever that means...) It just so happens that your open source project here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.