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Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code
An anonymous reader writes "In a move that's a win for the free software community, Creative Labs has decided to release their binary Linux driver for the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium sound cards under the GPL license. This is coming after several failed attempts at delivering a working binary driver and years after these sound cards first hit the market."
Does anyone know where/how to get a list of binary-only kernel drivers?
I tried to compile a list a few years ago but in 6 months all the drivers I had discovered had been made free.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I actually though. Only 5 times? Why could he not use the console even more?
I really hate this "GUI good, console baaad" bullshit. The console is a good thing, and yelling out that uneducated bullshit of yours should result in a good old straight punch in the face. Luckily for you, I'm non that kind of person.
The console is what makes the difference from being a monkey who uses a pre-fabricated toy to having the power over your computer and creating your own tools. It's the power to automate. The whole fuckin' point of a computer!
My ideal UI would have graphical output, but would be controlled like a console. (Perhaps with a small command line with history at the bottom of the screen.)
Look at Autodesk Maya. They did a wonderful job. Everything you do is a script command. (In Python now too!) Everything can be entered both ways. Graphically or in the console. And then you select some lines, and drag them on the toolbar, or add a menu item with a shortcut. Or you add some flow control statements, some variables, and some UI elements, and there you have it: Your new tool!
If someone would integrate Linux UIs so tightly (by disallowing programs without UI/logic separation and letting you choose between different scripting languages), we would get the power of the console with a modern graphical view. And I'd dedicate a huge thankfulness gift to that person. (= Something that is worth more than just money.)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
That's funny because I had to wait for 8.04 before I could boot Ubuntu on my EVGA 8800GTS 640M without manually fucking editing the grub config to disable framebuffer. Every time I get a new graphics card I have to wait for Ubuntu to catch up if I don't want to edit config files or use the command line. Not complaining, it's me who gets the bleeding-edge hardware, but just because you don't have to use the command line on your rig doesn't mean that tons of other people don't have an easier time just booting XP.
What is that ballsack-for-a-mouth smiley supposed to mean?