The story is about Linux drivers, not MacOS 9 or MacOS X drivers.
I've been using Linux on PowerPCs for about a year and an half now, and anything that is available as binary only is rare to work on them (sometimes companies will release a ppc binary like Loki, but again that's rare.) Also I've been interested in checking out FreeBSD or OpenBSD on my x86, and had I bought a GeForce 3/4 instead of my Radeon 8500, I would have been SOL...
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The story is about Linux drivers, not MacOS 9 or MacOS X drivers.
I've been using Linux on PowerPCs for about a year and an half now, and anything that is available as binary only is rare to work on them (sometimes companies will release a ppc binary like Loki, but again that's rare.) Also I've been interested in checking out FreeBSD or OpenBSD on my x86, and had I bought a GeForce 3/4 instead of my Radeon 8500, I would have been SOL...
A lot of good that does for people trying to get an NVidia card working on a Mac.
Or you could just go to the RPM directory on the CD and do a `rpm -Fvh *` which will update all currently installed rpms.
The Denver Post has a good story about this here