Stable hardware ABIs are a cancer. Thank you but I don't want my Linux to be flooded with a bunch of unstable blobs. Give us code or specifications or GTFO.
I agree, nouveau is progressing really fast. One thing that we really need as nouveau progress is to get rid of the patent issues in Mesa, S3TC and solve those kind of things. We need to invalidate all software patents.
That's exactly why I stopped using the binary blob, the binary blob is just a Windows port of the driver to Linux, and it sucks badly.
I use nouveau now which is IMHO a lot better and embraces Linux a lot better, KMS, Wayland, XRandR from the beginning, and so on. It might not have the performance of the blob yet but I'm sure that will come with time. Performance will only get better from here if we all help.
If Linus is against of out of tree modules such as the nvidia one, wouldn't it be better if he removes this exception? i.e. forcing nvidia to cooperate.
I use nouveau too and it's a lot better than the blob in many different ways, I would suggest also that you stop using the Flash blob (for practical reasons) and instead use HTML5 or simply stream down the flash into VLC or mplayer (with scripts like youtube-dl), you'll thank me later.
Well, why don't you take the time to help? What program is crashing for you exactly? Please consider reporting bugs if you find any and if you are able to reproduce.
I believe Linux gaming will also accelerate development of Linux and drivers. Think about it, the more people stress our graphics stack with intensive 3D the more development will happen, bug reports, fixes, etc.
KMS is simply a great advancement for Linux, unless you want to be tweaking your xorg.conf to death. KMS does all the configuration for you, it actually removes the need of having a xorg.conf.
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No fucking way. We want specs and docs for nouveau.
What good is the nvidia blob code if the nvidia blob code is just a port from the Windows nvidia drivers?
File a bug about that nouveau issue to the nouveau folks.
Stable hardware ABIs are a cancer. Thank you but I don't want my Linux to be flooded with a bunch of unstable blobs. Give us code or specifications or GTFO.
Fuck stable kernel API.
Well, but this definition is not defined in the license or anything right? It was just part of some conversation as I understand it?
What does the GPLv2 says about this? Woulnd't switching to the GPLv3 force them to cooperate?
It seems that if they won't cooperate we gotta be tougher in this one.
I don't understand, Linux is licensed under the GPLv2, isn't nvidia violating the GPL with their blob here?
I agree, nouveau is progressing really fast. One thing that we really need as nouveau progress is to get rid of the patent issues in Mesa, S3TC and solve those kind of things. We need to invalidate all software patents.
Oh I forgot: Fuck you nvidia.
That's exactly why I stopped using the binary blob, the binary blob is just a Windows port of the driver to Linux, and it sucks badly.
I use nouveau now which is IMHO a lot better and embraces Linux a lot better, KMS, Wayland, XRandR from the beginning, and so on. It might not have the performance of the blob yet but I'm sure that will come with time. Performance will only get better from here if we all help.
File a bug report to the nouveau project if you find any issues.
Where can I read this exception?
If Linus is against of out of tree modules such as the nvidia one, wouldn't it be better if he removes this exception? i.e. forcing nvidia to cooperate.
I use nouveau too and it's a lot better than the blob in many different ways, I would suggest also that you stop using the Flash blob (for practical reasons) and instead use HTML5 or simply stream down the flash into VLC or mplayer (with scripts like youtube-dl), you'll thank me later.
There's xwayland so his X WM should still work fine.
But it's better to start writing Wayland wm/compositors since Wayland is the future.
$ readelf -a $(which skype) reports ELF32 on archlinux.
http://sprunge.us/RTJa
I have a T510 and it has been rock solid, I'm running Arch Linux on it.
It's Qt, not QT, unless you are referring to QuickTime.
Well, why don't you take the time to help? What program is crashing for you exactly? Please consider reporting bugs if you find any and if you are able to reproduce.
I am using KDE 4.8.4 in Arch Linux too, and it's extremely stable, I love it.
Get a ThinkPad and install Linux on it.
Are these the bugs you are referring to?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288985
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224447
Those are still in KDE 4.8.3 and I agree, they are quite annoying.
I believe Linux gaming will also accelerate development of Linux and drivers. Think about it, the more people stress our graphics stack with intensive 3D the more development will happen, bug reports, fixes, etc.
Do you know if they will write a Wayland compositor also? or port the MATE WM to it?
Everyone should care about KMS.
KMS is simply a great advancement for Linux, unless you want to be tweaking your xorg.conf to death. KMS does all the configuration for you, it actually removes the need of having a xorg.conf.
I agree completely, I couldn't have said that better.