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Originally posted by aorth View PostRegarding NVIDIA, I hope the does mean they're going to start playing nice with Linux. The proprietary graphics drivers on my desktop are rubbish; my mobile Sandy Bridge graphics animate GNOME3 transitions orders of magnitude smoother than this damn Quadro FX 1800 (768 megs of freakin' RAM).
Now on a serious note, except for FSF all so called Linux or "Open Source" organizations are not really against binary blobs, so until you see the nVidia logo on http://www.fsf.org/patrons there's nothing to worry about .
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Originally posted by dfx. View Postand i don't even know who's worse...
personally, i hope for Samsung and ARM to kick some ass with Exynos, Mali and Tizen.
Regarding NVIDIA, I hope the does mean they're going to start playing nice with Linux. The proprietary graphics drivers on my desktop are rubbish; my mobile Sandy Bridge graphics animate GNOME3 transitions orders of magnitude smoother than this damn Quadro FX 1800 (768 megs of freakin' RAM).Last edited by aorth; 07 March 2012, 08:46 AM.
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Only sad thing about the omap's is, they use our big bad friend, PowerVR.
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Originally posted by oliver View PostMy first reaction seeing the title in my RSS reader was; This is it, hell has frozen over. Reading the rest of the article though only re-confirmed what I've been remembering for years.
nVidia doesn't care for linux. Their CEO once made a statement regarding linux back in the riva128 days about they would never support opensource etc etc.
I think them joining the foundation is just a way to sell more tegra chips for use in android tablets, with their binary blob for video. Good for the foundation to have some extra cash, but don't expect any nVidia opensource miracles.
"Ice Cream Sandwich runs better on TI OMAP" Here is some nose rubbing that comes from the usually quite passive Texas Instruments PR team. They were not too happy that Nvidia was the platform of choice for Honeycomb Android 3.x, but they sure are proud to confirm the fact that MAP 4460 is th...
OMAP5 is shaping up as the future:
Chipmaker Texas Instruments placed its OMAP 4 application processors in many smartphone, tablet and e-reader devices last year, but the company debuted the...
IMO Nvidia need desperately to do something positive re Linux or Tegra won't be used any longer for Android. This is a big market to miss out on.
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My first reaction seeing the title in my RSS reader was; This is it, hell has frozen over. Reading the rest of the article though only re-confirmed what I've been remembering for years.
nVidia doesn't care for linux. Their CEO once made a statement regarding linux back in the riva128 days about they would never support opensource etc etc.
I think them joining the foundation is just a way to sell more tegra chips for use in android tablets, with their binary blob for video. Good for the foundation to have some extra cash, but don't expect any nVidia opensource miracles.
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NVIDIA Is Joining The Linux Foundation
Phoronix: NVIDIA Is Joining The Linux Foundation
NVIDIA will be joining the Linux Foundation, per an announcement coming out in the morning. But for open-source Linux fans, will this be a reason to rejoice about NVIDIA potentially moving forward with open-source drivers? Don't break out the champagne quite yet...
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