Originally posted by Sonadow
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2) Okay, now that would piss me off. I've been very fortunate that every time Ubuntu has pushed out a kernel update I have never had any glitches from the process. That could be just because the kernel patches weren't dramatic enough to break something.
3) That is definitely a major advantage... and I can see why NVIDIA and AMD would like to keep their drivers closed if they can cut off certain functionality based on GPU model (GeForce vs. Quadro, e.g.).
4) meh. Some of that is kinda petty though. If I have a kernel panic that can clearly be traced back to the NIC driver, are they going to ignore a bug report just because I have VirtualBox or the nvidia driver installed? That doesn't instill a lot of confidence in me.
Originally posted by quintesse
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Then look at all the people on this forum -- especially some of the most vocal OSS proponents -- who are so eager to throw all the old hardware / software "cruft" over the boat at the first chance. I mean damn... the news about KWin dropping support for *current* AMD hardware using Catalyst was met with rounds of applause. "It's time to move on!"
I mean... you can still get drivers that work for the GeForce 3 or whatever... you just won't be able to run them in the latest Ubuntu or the like. But I see that as trying to fit a carburetor on an EFI engine. You have to kinda keep the components matched up.
there are some important things that the NVidia driver does not support like KMS. Which comes back to not having any control: NVidia just refuses to support this all-important new development in the Linux kernel.
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