In data giovedì 2 gennaio 2020 20:07:20 CET, Lew Wolfgang ha scritto:
On 1/2/20 6:46 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 02/01/2020 15.28, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 02/01/2020 à 15:05, stakanov a écrit :
I am a bit puzzled over the argument. Nvidia is known to violently stick to closed source and even is going against OSS initiatives with inertia, denial of specs etc.....
well... there is a nvida repo in yast
Yes, but it uses tricks to allow publishing, because it is closed source.
While I understand your dislike on principle, closed-source video drivers never caused me any heartburn. Are Radeon drivers open-source?
My caution regarding AMD started a long time ago when the Matrox Millennium II was the preferred card for SuSE. IIRC Matrox and SuSE worked together on drivers. For reasons I don't recall, we moved away from Matrox and tried both AMD and nVidia. The drivers for AMD were rather crude at that time (late 1990's) and we settled on Nvidia.
More recent experience was with a Radeon Pro WX7100 board, with four DP outputs. We had real problems with it and replaced it with a nVidia GP106GL [Quadro P2000]. IIRC the user was having issues with Virtualbox and/or VMware, which has been solid as a rock using the Yast-provided nVidia repository.
Regards, Lew
Which is a very common hardware demands for the average user? https://gpuopen.com/gaming-product/amd-open-source-driver-for-vulkan/ gives you an idea on ongoing efforts. The question about your hardware choice is then obvious. The nvidia exchange you did choose has a) an equivalent point of life cycle (that is, was the AMD model brand new and the Nvidia not? b) was the Nvidia offering the same hardware features? I had a quick look, but it does seem the cards are offering different setups. If someone has to buy a new card it is fairly easy to take a choice were OSS support of graphics is no witch-work and works out of the box. And that is AMD. Vmware is AFAIK not OSS either. Vmware does build on OSS..with blobs? Am I wrong then please correct me. Me myself I am using KVM mainly without bigger issues, but I do not have to set up clouds or servers. All boils down IMO to the informed choice when buying hardware. CSS is always giving me headaches when it comes to industrial secrets and "trust". There is naturally also a reason to favor who is collaborating with the development cycle of the OS you use to do your living and not actively obstructing any collaboration. YMMV _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Ihre E-Mail-Postfächer sicher & zentral an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und alte E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://www.eclipso.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org