NVIDIA Driver Developer Discusses Linux Graphics

An anonymous reader writes "Andy Ritger, who leads the NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Team responsible for creating drivers on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, has answered many questions at Phoronix about the state of Linux graphics, gaming, and drivers. Ritger shares some interesting facts, such as: the Linux graphics driver download rate is 0.5% that of their Windows driver downloads at NVIDIA.com; how the Nouveau developers are doing an incredible job; creating an AMD-like open-source strategy at NVIDIA would be time intensive and unlikely; and development problems for the Linux platform. Also commented on are new features that may come to their Linux driver within the next twelve months." Like all stories at Phoronix, in common with most other hardware review sites, this one is arbitrarily and maddeningly spread across 8 pages.

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Re:There's only two questions that matter

[QuantumG]

Sorry, you're not the kind of apologist I'm talking about. You don't care about open source either.. fine, you two enjoy each other. My objection is to the asshats who think NVIDIA "can't" open source their drivers and so people who do care about open source should give them a free pass. They can, they choose not to.