The linux kernel has gone through several revisions of the USB interface, for example. Now just about every USB driver can work at close to the full theoritical usb speed.
If linux had a stable ABI, it would severely hampen such development.
Do you really want a closed source driver that will only work on a certain kernel version for a certain distro and just hope that the manufactorer will keep it updated forever?
By publically telling NVidia to release open source drivers and telling users to not buy until they do, you are giving nvidia a financial incentive to do so.
By encouraging people to put pressure on NVidia, you are making it more profitable for them to do so, because they do not want the bad publicity and perhaps loss in sales.
Sounds awful - then you get a situation where you have binary drivers which mostly can't be shipped with the distribution, can't be updated, only work with a certain kernel version on a certain distro...
Sounds terrible
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I don't see the point. Pixmaps sent to the xserver tend to be stored on the video card memory, on non-UMA systems (systems with seperate video card and main memory - i.e. most PCs). You can't share that video card memory with a client app.
Only 150? Here's an email I recieved a few days ago:
On behalf of X - Head of Engineering & Design - I would like to invite you to a celebration in honour of Professor Y, who recently celebrated the publication of his 500th academic paper.
Well given that Java is from Sun and that.NET is from Microsoft, it's hardly surprising that MS Office is mostly geared for.NET usage and Openoffice.org is mostly geared for Java usage.
How is this different from the Gumstix, which are small 600Mhz xscale chips (using ARM also) but also come with ethernet, bluetooth, touchscreen TFT screens, general I/O, flash memory, etc
Hmm, I emailed HP and they said flat out that they will not support Linux or Mac. I looked on the HP website and did google for the PPD file for the printer and couldn't find it.
No, they mean that the user types in the password. This is then used to generate the key. If this decrypts the data, then you're good to go. This key only needs to be stored until you poweroff.
> Travelling faster than the speed of light is, after all, just as impossible as time travel
Travelling faster than the speed of light is pretty much the same thing as time travel. If you could travel faster than the speed of light, then you could time travel.
It also seems that a lot of times companies deserve to lose out to open source.
I purchased an expensive HP printer for the office, and yet HP refuse to provide me with the PPD files for it. This _forces_ me to use, and support, open source drivers.
I simply cannot understand why HP refuse to the provide the ppd file for their printers. It's plain text and probably wouldn't take them more than a day to write. Yet they seem to actively refuse to do so.
Undirected hacking can be a good thing. There's always something that needs fixing/improving, so why not just go ahead and fix/improve it, rather than having to follow a specific plan?
You can add a bit of structure by prioritizing bug reports (to make sure boring but important bugs/features are fixed/added).
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The linux kernel has gone through several revisions of the USB interface, for example. Now just about every USB driver can work at close to the full theoritical usb speed.
If linux had a stable ABI, it would severely hampen such development.
Do you really want a closed source driver that will only work on a certain kernel version for a certain distro and just hope that the manufactorer will keep it updated forever?
By publically telling NVidia to release open source drivers and telling users to not buy until they do, you are giving nvidia a financial incentive to do so.
By encouraging people to put pressure on NVidia, you are making it more profitable for them to do so, because they do not want the bad publicity and perhaps loss in sales.
Sounds awful - then you get a situation where you have binary drivers which mostly can't be shipped with the distribution, can't be updated, only work with a certain kernel version on a certain distro...
Sounds terrible
I don't see the point. Pixmaps sent to the xserver tend to be stored on the video card memory, on non-UMA systems (systems with seperate video card and main memory - i.e. most PCs). You can't share that video card memory with a client app.
Only 150? Here's an email I recieved a few days ago:
On behalf of X - Head of Engineering & Design - I would like to invite you to a celebration in honour of Professor Y, who recently celebrated the publication of his 500th academic paper.
500... seriously...
Well given that Java is from Sun and that .NET is from Microsoft, it's hardly surprising that MS Office is mostly geared for .NET usage and Openoffice.org is mostly geared for Java usage.
Btw you can control openoffice the same way through it's java and c++ interfaces.
So... basically you end up waiting ages for a bus and then two come along at the same time?
So, what does a via do, what is ground bounce, and how do you measure it? :)
Out of interest, what would the 'bunch of very standard' components be?
How is this different from the Gumstix, which are small 600Mhz xscale chips (using ARM also) but also come with ethernet, bluetooth, touchscreen TFT screens, general I/O, flash memory, etc
I get the sarcasm, but without the PPD files you can't set full duplex etc
Well I share the printer on the network. For that you need the PPD file so that users can chose full duplex etc.
Hmm, I emailed HP and they said flat out that they will not support Linux or Mac. I looked on the HP website and did google for the PPD file for the printer and couldn't find it.
Where can I download the PPD driver for the HP Color LaserJet CP3505x printer?
I emailed HP and they said flat out that they will not support Linux or Mac.
And yet HP still refuse to provide linux drivers for their printers. Hmm.
E=mc^2 is exactly true if m is the relativistic mass. This is the objects gravitational mass, its inertial mass.
VMWare is an excellent example of where it is difficult to install because it can't be packaged by distros.
Everytime Ubuntu releases a new kernel, VMWare stops working If it was integrated better into the packing system then this wouldn't happen.
No, they mean that the user types in the password. This is then used to generate the key. If this decrypts the data, then you're good to go.
This key only needs to be stored until you poweroff.
> Travelling faster than the speed of light is, after all, just as impossible as time travel
Travelling faster than the speed of light is pretty much the same thing as time travel. If you could travel faster than the speed of light, then you could time travel.
Um, what? It is not possible to put the zfs code into the kernel. It would be illegal to do so. Putting down pitchforks would not solve this problem.
If the CDDL and GPL were compatible, then Sun would have chosen a different license that was incompatible with the GPL.
It also seems that a lot of times companies deserve to lose out to open source.
I purchased an expensive HP printer for the office, and yet HP refuse to provide me with the PPD files for it. This _forces_ me to use, and support, open source drivers.
I simply cannot understand why HP refuse to the provide the ppd file for their printers. It's plain text and probably wouldn't take them more than a day to write. Yet they seem to actively refuse to do so.
Undirected hacking can be a good thing. There's always something that needs fixing/improving, so why not just go ahead and fix/improve it, rather than having to follow a specific plan?
You can add a bit of structure by prioritizing bug reports (to make sure boring but important bugs/features are fixed/added).