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."

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Re:I think he'd prefer the binary nVidia driver

[oatworm]

ut fuck anyone who thinks they have the right to determine if someone's work is a waste of time or not.

People determine that all the time. It's why some people get hired and some people get fired. It's why some people shop at Walmart and others don't. It's why some people buy Toyotas and others ride the bus... and so on. With that in mind, I don't recommend fucking everyone that participates in a market economy - you just don't know where some of them have been.

As for the whole Nouveau vs. closed source blob situation, I think Nouveau is a decent starting option for a distribution since it's something they have some control over. As others have pointed out, those that need official Nvidia drivers know where to look.

Re:How come?

[timmarhy]

actually you can get copies of every MS product right back to DOS 3 via technet. so you'll need use a better example.

your whole premise is a big fail, because some FOSS project is FAR FAR more likely to stop producing updates and go offline (because they got a life/job/girlfriend) then a company like MS or nvidia which has actual funding. i'll say it again, your assumption is stupid and irrational and you've got nothing to back it up.

it's the same kind of thinking as people who stash guns in the attic and keep a hord of canned food for when jesus ends the world next week.