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Open Source 3D Nvidia Driver Is Ready For Fedora 13
An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat has already been using the Nouveau X.Org driver in Fedora for providing display and 2D support, but with their next release (Fedora 13) they will be making open-source 3D acceleration readily available to those using Nvidia graphics cards. Red Hat has packaged the Nouveau 3D driver in Fedora 13 and what makes it interesting — besides being an open source 3D driver that was written by the community by reverse engineering Nvidia's closed-source driver — is that it's one of the first drivers to use the Gallium3D driver interface. Phoronix has tested out this Gallium3D driver for Nvidia GPUs in a Fedora 13 daily build and found it to run with a variety of OpenGL games, with benchmarks being included that compare it to Nvidia's official driver. The performance is far from being on the same stage as Nvidia's official Unix driver."
so why are they wasting time reinventing the wheel when they could be working on something more valuable?
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
what so the moment the lastest card comes out yours stops working? you can download drivers for card on nvidia's website that they were selling 10 years ago. your fears are stupid and irrational
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Ok then:
Bush’s work was a waste of time.
Go a head, try to fuck me. ;)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
what so the moment the lastest card comes out yours stops working? you can download drivers for card on nvidia's website that they were selling 10 years ago. your fears are stupid and irrational
Just because they are doing it today, doesn't mean they will keep doing it tomorrow. Moreover, just because they allowed you to make a copy for your own use today, that doesn't come with rights to distribute either the original, or derivative works.
If a new game comes out, it might hit a bug in an old driver.
Closed source? Sorry, you're SOL. Suck it up and buy a new card.
Somebody patched the closed source driver? Sounds like Copyright Infringement at $200 to $150,000 for each work infringed. Make checks payable to NVIDIA, c/o Legal Department.
Free software? Cool. Fix it yourself, or hire somebody to do it for you.
This isn't fear, these are facts about the world in which we live.
I choose free software because that's the kind of world that I would like to live in. I think that's a rational action, but YMMV.
What kind of world do you want to live in?
I can't understand how this is ready for Prime Time.
It isn't. Fedora is the beta test edition for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora is not ready for prime time. Lots of people like to live on the bleeding edge, and that's OK, but Fedora is not the real thing. It's the sneak preview.
With that said, the news was not that they were going to make the nvidia driver fail, but that they would include the nouveau driver. So your comment is a total waste of space. HTH, HAND.
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Congratz, you just bought a car and ran it at 30km/h.
Get a driver license and do a 100km/h please
Have you considered that the parent might also dual boot into windows? Notice the gp states "I don't play games on linux much." (emphasis mine)
From what I've seen the nvidia drivers on linux can be pretty abysmal and even just getting compiz working is a huge step forward, especially for open source, reverse engineered drivers.
If you want to be a douche bag, at least read the parent's comment before being so quick to fire such a moronic reply. Is that all you can bring to the table? An insult? Because they stated that their graphics driver served their very limited needs? To use your fucking totally shitty analogy: If you are only ever city driving, you only really need to do 30 km/h anyways. Most people's cars will go well over 100. You are totally right. They are wasting all of that vast, untapped potential! I can get people not reading the article (fuck I didn't even RTFA and here I am making some comment!), but when you can't even read the whole comment you are taking the time to reply to, then maybe you need to go over to like digg or 4chan or something. Who knows, you might find some people more on your level there, if you know what I mean. You should learn some proper grammar too.
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