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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:Why all the hate /.? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dammit, posted AC. That'll learn me to not log in.

    Yeah I hate it when I accidentally forget to log in, and then accidentally type in a CAPTCHA, and then accidentally click "Submit", and then realize "shit, I forgot to log in!".

    Gets me every time.

  2. Re:"a reverse-engineered incarnation" by Alex+Belits · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shut up, hairyfeet, you are supposed to write pages and pages about horrors of not having a single unchanging ABI for kernel drivers, so poor proprietary drivers developers can write shit drivers.

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