Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver

The Linux 6.6 modules infrastructure is changing to better protect against the illicit behavior of NVIDIA's proprietary kernel driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Illicit-NVIDIA-Change

[citral]

Nvidia will eventually endure the same fate as divx and adobe flash. Quite annoying meanwhile, just like those 2 were back then...

[Barley9432]

This is the sort of hostility that makes me want to avoid Linux. This also affects other open source projects like ZFS constantly. This hostility is unnecessary

[nadir]

Nvidia will eventually endure the same fate as divx and adobe flash. Quite annoying meanwhile, just like those 2 were back then...

Very doubtful. They are very profitable and things are going just fine for them.

[flower]

I really don't understand why Linux has such "defense lines" in the first place.

[MastaG]

Well then.. time for Nvidia to put more resources into their open driver I guess

[pharmasolin]

I really don't understand why Linux has such "defense lines" in the first place.

Maybe because they made Linus mad back in the day? It's a revenge

[NotMine999]

Well then.. time for Nvidia to put more resources into their open driver I guess

Now that's FUNNY!

[citral]

I really don't understand why Linux has such "defense lines" in the first place.

Well you could read the article for instance. TLDR: proprietary, closed source blobs do nasty things, and you have very little idea to what extend until you really dig in. See chinese android tv boxes for a nice primer.

[mouacyk]

I really don't understand why Linux has such "defense lines" in the first place.

Imagine if you gave someone the bird.