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Next Linux Kernel Due Early March

Posted by timothy on from the that's-what-I-call-a-public-good dept.

swandives writes "The Linux.conf.au is in full-swing in Wellington, New Zealand, and Computerworld Australia has an interview with Jon Corbet in the leadup to his Kernel Report. The latest kernel release is due early March and will include reversed-engineered drivers for Nvidia chipsets."

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  1. Re:Thank goodness for those drivers by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please see the last NVIDIA linux drivers story.. for fuck sake.. it's only been a month.

          http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/11/1556237

    Go argue with last month.

     

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  2. Re:Thank goodness for those drivers by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Informative

    So, Nvidia writes drivers for your system, and those drivers work. What's the problem?

    Indeed, I have no problem with that. I've been using Linux or long enough to remember having to spend a lot of time getting around issues of hardware compatibility. Nvidia was in there quite early on providing good drivers for its chipsets at a time when just about every other manufacturer just shrugged its shoulders and told us to "Fuck off, We don't support Linux."

    That alone has promoted a lot of goodwill as far as I'm concerned, and so nVidia chipsets are right at the top of my preferred brands list. So I get very tired of hearing people badmouthing nVidia without giving an adequate reason why.