* LinuxWorld999 (linuxworld999@yahoo.co.uk) [031101 02:05]:
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You guys are ridiculous. The reality is that NVidia produces the BEST drivers available for X and OpenGL. The fact they will not open source the drivers is really not a matter for concern. NVidia has stated in the past that they have a rather unique technology that allows drivers to be unified for ALL the chipsets they produce. They don't write the drivers in 'C' or some other common lanquage. They have some proprietary system. Sure with the specs one might be able to write some drivers in 'C' or whatever. But do you really think that an outsider is likely to produce better drivers than NVidia does?
Now of course some companies drivers suck and they could be improved upon. However, NVidias probably are nearly as good as they can get for X.
-Jim-
Nvidia's support for Linux is commendable and their drivers have caused a few problems but this far out-weighed by the advantages once installed. On SuSE 9, the drivers work well.
I never had a problem with nVidia or their drivers. What I wrote about ATI and them not providing specs for their cards had to do with the fact that the open source drivers for the Radeon 7500 are damn good but the drivers that ATI have been putting out for their 8000 series and above have been crappy and problematic at best or so I've been told. I don't much care of ATI or nVidia open source their drivers..as long as they work and are of good quality. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.