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  • entropy
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    Originally posted by johnc View Post
    What business is it of yours if they don't want to release source or documentation? Just don't buy their products.
    I don't (anymore).

    Besides, what worth is any legal statement (license) and idea
    if there is no one standing behind it?
    So I'm free to make this my business.

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  • johnc
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    Originally posted by entropy View Post
    How does it disburden NVIDIA just because there are others problematic companies?
    What business is it of yours if they don't want to release source or documentation? Just don't buy their products.

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  • entropy
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    Originally posted by johnc View Post
    Could there be anything more vague than "doesn't play by the rules"?

    Do all those Android vendors "play by the rules"?
    How does it disburden NVIDIA just because there are others problematic companies?

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  • johnc
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    Originally posted by entropy View Post
    NVIDIA is exploiting Linux and doesn't play by the rules.
    How is it difficult to understand that lots of FOSS people doesn't like that?
    Could there be anything more vague than "doesn't play by the rules"?

    Do all those Android vendors "play by the rules"?

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  • entropy
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    Originally posted by johnc View Post
    This forum is overflowing with bitching about NVIDIA, like somehow Linux is being held back by the company. If I'm a hater for calling out that distortion, that's fine.
    NVIDIA is exploiting Linux and doesn't play by the rules.
    How is it difficult to understand that lots of FOSS people doesn't like that?

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  • johnc
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    Originally posted by XorEaxEax View Post
    Lol, 'marginal server success', oh and conveniently ignoring the entire embedded sector beyond that of mobile phones? And the success of Android sure as hell relies more on Linux than it having a proprietary NVidia driver, it would be far easier to replace the NVidia driver with an open source version than to replace Linux that's for sure.

    It's funny that an obvious Linux hater like yourself tried to present yourself as someone who 'loves Linux', LOL WTF!? Where do people like you come from? Seriously?
    Maybe I have my numbers wrong but my understanding is that Windows is top on servers. But all I have are IDC (non-revenue) numbers which showed Windows at 40%, Linux at 30%, and "other UNIX" at 30%. I'm looking for better numbers so if you have a (reliable) source, I'll definitely correct myself.

    Okay, you got me on the embedded sector. It's in keyboards and routers too. Credit where credit is due.

    If one were to look at the mobile market, you can see that a Linux kernel isn't necessary for success. Symbian, QNX for RIM, iOS -- just a year ago they owned the mobile space. But I don't know of too many successful Android phones that are free of proprietary binary blobs. (Again, I'm open to correction.) It seems that Android success depends on its vendors protecting their IP with closed source licenses. Why couldn't the same reasoning apply to the desktop?

    There are a lot of things I love about Linux, and some that I do not. I've been exclusive Ubuntu (on two boxes) for daily work for about two years now, if that means anything. I never boot into Win7 except to play games (but haven't logged in over there in 3+ months as I don't play too many Steam games lately... unfortunately). I just refuse to turn a blind eye to the shortcomings of Linux. To see people paper over the driver disaster that is on Linux just comes off as rabid fanboyism. I would love to see a Linux distro become the #1 desktop OS. But I recognize that there are certain realities that have to be respected before that accomplishment could be met.

    I also think it's rather petty to dismiss or minimize the accomplishments of other operating systems, even those we don't like. The truth is, Windows is friggin' everywhere. Windows 7 has shipped 600m copies alone, and that's not even a free OS. And it's a good operating system... not my cup of tea, personally... but I'll give it respect.

    Symbian, QNX and iOS are all good operating systems. Do they not deserve respect because they're closed source?

    This forum is overflowing with bitching about NVIDIA, like somehow Linux is being held back by the company. If I'm a hater for calling out that distortion, that's fine.

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  • XorEaxEax
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    Originally posted by johnc View Post
    There is no Linux success outside of supercomputers, marginal server success and super-proprietary Android devices.

    Linus might not want proprietary drivers, but he was sure quick to brag about those 900,000 daily Android activations.
    Lol, 'marginal server success', oh and conveniently ignoring the entire embedded sector beyond that of mobile phones? And the success of Android sure as hell relies more on Linux than it having a proprietary NVidia driver, it would be far easier to replace the NVidia driver with an open source version than to replace Linux that's for sure.

    It's funny that an obvious Linux hater like yourself tried to present yourself as someone who 'loves Linux', LOL WTF!? Where do people like you come from? Seriously?

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  • artivision
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    Is an idiotic thing to have open/free or any other ASIC drivers. Do you want to translate to you what Unix means? Well, just develop a Multilevel LLVM Software Rasterizer with OGL3 support under GPL and LLVM back-ends for Radeon, Geforce, CPU, and others. That way all of you will work for the same think, and you will have 80%+ the frame-rate of the closed drivers, and thats because LLVM is a program that writes programs and can replace human code and intelligence to the minimum. OGL has the ability to run on different processors, so if you have an IntelHD4000 back-end and an AVX back-end, you will have double the frame-rate. This way PS3, XBOX360, ARM-graphics and others work (automatically.yyyyyyyy).

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  • jvillain
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    You FOSS zealots are going to have to realize that there's going to have to be compromises if you want Linux to go anywhere
    Say what? Linux is probably the most successful OS on the planet already. It runs on almost every architecture there is. First there is the massive server farm deployments. Then the fact that half of all smart phones run a Linux kernel, the other half not being Windows. Then almost every TV being sold has a Linux OS in it. How many set top boxes have Linux in them? Point of sales systems? My Yamaha receiver has a Linux OS. Appliances. We can go on and on and on. It is every where except the desktop. The fact that so few people realize that they use it multiple times a day is a tribute to it's success. The fact that it is having such a hard time getting traction on the desktop can be attributed to the lousy graphics support from the companies like NVidia as we have seen in pole after pole.

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  • johnc
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    Originally posted by XorEaxEax View Post
    It's ironic that you quote Linus as the original 'FOSS Zealots...' statement made by the troll FuturePilot is in effect directed at the Linux kernel developers as it's THEY who do NOT compromise with proprietary drivers. They don't want proprietary drivers, they refuse to let proprietary drivers link directly to the kernel, they want OPEN SOURCE drivers which they can verify/debug/update.

    And the whole 'you need to compromise if you want to get anywhere' bullshit just flies as by using this policy Linux has amassed huge hardware support right out-of-the-box, which in turn is a LARGE reason for Linux success as it can run on just about anything while carrying with it it's huge hardware device compability meaning you don't have to pray that the hardware vendor sees it fit to produce a proprietary driver for whatever architecture you want to run.

    It's also telling that those here who complain about the Linux developers aversion towards proprietary drivers generally are people who has no interest in Linux whatsoever, it's almost as if they had an agenda...
    There is no Linux success outside of supercomputers, marginal server success and super-proprietary Android devices.

    Linus might not want proprietary drivers, but he was sure quick to brag about those 900,000 daily Android activations.

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