Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 17, 2012 @02:48AM from the first-person-digital dept.

New submitter jppiiroinen writes "Linus Torvalds received the Millennium prize last week for his work on Linux operating system. He was already in Finland, so Aalto University arranged a talk session with him (video). During the Q&A, a person asks why NVIDIA does not play well with Linux. Torvalds explained shortly that NVIDIA has been one of the worst companies to work with Linux project — which makes it even worse that NVIDIA ships a high number of chips for Android devices (which use Linux inside). Torvalds even summarized that ('Nvidia, f*** you!') in a playful manner. What has been your experience on NVIDIA drivers with Linux?"

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Re:THEN YOU DO IT MISTER HIGH AND MIGHTY !! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-17 03:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Nividia do not have unified drivers for OSX. Apple ensure you cannot drop in Apple's own NV cards for any Apple machine with PCIe slots, let alone use your choice of NV PCIe card. Apple's proprietary approach means users lose out and have almost zero choice on what video cards their expensive Mac Pros can use. So give it a rest with Linux doesn't use them, you are talking shit, the vast majority of render farms are Linux + GPUs from Nvidia. It's Apple users that don't use them for anything more than itunes and web.