Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Goes Stable On Linux

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."

Comments

incredibly bad move

[bolthole]

Way to go guys.. you've now given Nvidia massive disincentive to continue to do more work with their MODERN drivers.

LOL... stable but crappy

[Anonymous Coward]

Crappy half implemented acceleration support. No multiple monitor support. No thermal control.

In short: Good job guys! Not!

Finally, it's the year of Linux on the desktop!

[apparently]

Surely, the news of a video driver that "works fine if you don't care about performance or are fine with running hardware that's a few generations old" is the awesome secret magic that the masses have been waiting for. And it's free as in beer! As long as you don't care about your mug of beer being poured from 20 mugs of swill. The only thing holding my nana back from ditching windows is lack of an apk-approved HOSTS file for the ooboontooo.

Re:Finally, it's the year of Linux on the desktop!

[rho]

It's a wonderful technological breakthrough that will thrill about two dozen people. This is a great story for 2003.

Re:"a reverse-engineered incarnation"

[wmbetts]

Congratulation you're a fucking moron!

Out of the box OllyDBG and IDA are both better than gdb. Sure, you can modify the source with GDB and probably come up with something better than either of them. I could also write my own from scratch so what's your point? You could of at least recommended something that was close to OllyDbg (i.e. EDB).