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jester
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pbharris
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nice read - thanks.
this kinda blows :
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However, the number of Linux driver downloads from nvidia.com is only 0.5% the number of nvidia.com Windows driver downloads.
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However, the number of Linux driver downloads from nvidia.com is only 0.5% the number of nvidia.com Windows driver downloads. |
I have never downloaded nvidia ( or ATI for that matter ) drivers in recent years from ATI or nvidia. Why, when they are usually in the repository. Only a very few running really bleeding edge boards and cards would ever even have a need to go to nvidia or ATI, and they might not be there in any case yet.
Like he mentions in passing, I seriously doubt if that has any real meaning
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yeah - he does qualify that download number by mentioning most people get the drivers through package manager + distro repos
for me the most interesting points were
- 90% codebase is the same
- freebsd x86_64 driver coming
- the nod to nouveau devs
and I thought the article was pretty accessible (or am I deluding myself?)
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I got the feeling he was trying very hard within his constraints ( time priorities manpower ) to keep Linux drivers up to date, and as open and forthright as possible in a competitive environment.
Let's face it, the reason I started using nvidia video cards was because of early support for Linux..as limited as it was early on. But the alternatives were worse.
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| Nvidia's support for Linux with CUDA is still strong, and gotten a lot better with recent releases.
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