NVIDIA's Andy Ritger On Linux Drivers

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday June 6, 2007 @12:14AM 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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Re:Nouveau by jdschulteis · 2007-06-06 04:07 · 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.