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Linux 4.6 Brings NVIDIA GTX 900 Support, OrangeFS, Better Power Management (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Linux 4.6-rc1 kernel has been released. New to the Linux 4.6 kernel are a significant number of new features including NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 open-source 3D support when using the closed-source firmware files, Dell XPS 13 Skylake laptop support, a fix for laptops that were limiting their own performance due to incorrectly thinking they were overheating, AHCI runtime power management support, Intel graphics power management features enabled by default, a new file-system (OrangeFS), and a range of other improvements.
Debian bug #1558331 proves that. They claim MongoDB and Chrome are tools of the repukianz so they don't allow us to install them.
Wow, this shows the hatred of Debian contributors:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1558331?comments=all
They hate us and don't want to allow us to use the software we need.
Seriously, there seems to be an obsession in parts of the Linux community to make yet another thing that already does what a bunch of existing software does. I'm not sure why but you see a lot of it. You'll get a distro that'll have 8 different media players, none of them worth a damn, rather than just having one good one but hey, you have options!
This is what they've been saying about both AMD and NVIDIA since there was a linux and an AMD and an NVIDIA. They all say "open-source xxx with binary". So what, they are drawing the line somewhere else?
Sounds to me like an open source driver in the OS and an opaque firmware blob to be loaded into the peripheral and run entirely there.
Not ideal. But how (besides the complexity and ease of installing malware) is it different from doing a complex silicon design, with an open driver, and not giving the RTL description of the logic? Or doing an FPGA design, providing an open driver, but not giving the source to the FPGA load, only the opaque binary object that describes the logic to be emulated?
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
There could be another reason for this. Do you recall how Creative Labs became very obstructive regarding design information for the X-Fi range of sound cards, to the extent that they would not release even basic info to the GNU/Linux driver community? The reason is because Microsoft sponsors them to write drivers for Windows. Just as Microsoft paid games companies to use DirectX over OpenGL. So there is a high probability that nVidia are taking the Microsoft coin and in return the deal prohibits them from providing full open source to the FOSS community...