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Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Goes Stable On Linux

Posted by timothy on from the stable-means-it's-got-horsepower-right? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The open source Nouveau driver, a reverse-engineered incarnation of NVIDIA's official proprietary driver for Linux, has reached its biggest milestone. The Nouveau driver is now being considered stable within the Linux kernel and leaving the staging area, with the pledge of a stable ABI. Phoronix has summarized the state of the Nouveau driver, which works fine if you don't care about performance or are fine with running hardware that's a few generations old."

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  1. Re:Nothng but Hate by lsolano · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not hate, it's being realistic.

    If this "news" where about a group of students that, for a homework did that driver, that can considered brilliant.

    But how can someone expect that we should praise this that works only "if you don't care about performance or are fine with running hardware that's a few generations old.".

    Not disrespecting the people working on this, but in the real world, this is not practical at all. Stable: maybe; but incomplete for sure.