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Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0

From	Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0
Date	2012-06-21 07:34 -0400
Organization	Hauck Family
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:28:38 -0700 (PDT), White Spirit <wulfgar1976@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 20, 1:47 am, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstr...@xzoozy.com> wrote:
>
>> More quote from that:
>
>>    NVIDIA has been a member of the Linux Foundation since March but
>>    doesn't contribute to the development of Nouveau – lately, the
>>    company has mainly focused its Linux efforts on its ARM chips. NVIDIA
>>    doesn't even provide programming information; the Nouveau developers
>>    have to reverse engineer it all. This is one of several areas where
>>    NVIDIA stands out because of its poor support of the open source
>>    developers, and it is likely one of the reasons why Linux creator
>>    Linus Torvalds recently held his middle finger up to a camera and
>>    said: "NVIDIA, fuck you".
>
> NVidia contributes to Linux by developing its drivers in-house and
> keeping them up to date with the latest features.

Unless you have a laptop. Then their binary blobs aren't up with the 
latest features after all.

-- 
Bob Hauck

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Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Hardon <hardon.quirk@gmail.com> - 2012-06-19 19:31 +0000
  Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-19 18:44 -0400
  Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-19 20:47 -0400
    Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-19 17:58 -0700
    Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 White Spirit <wulfgar1976@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 02:28 -0700
      Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-21 06:10 -0400
      Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org> - 2012-06-21 07:34 -0400
        Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 14:57 +0100
        Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 White Spirit <wulfgar1976@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 06:57 -0700
          Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-21 09:03 -0500
          Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org> - 2012-06-21 10:46 -0400
            Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-06-21 12:32 -0500
        Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-06-21 12:30 -0500
          NVidia doesn't do open source.  @Jeff-Relf.Me - 2012-06-21 12:21 -0700
          Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-21 17:08 -0400
            Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-06-21 16:13 -0500
      Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-21 08:55 -0500
  Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 12:26 +0100
    Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-06-21 13:31 +0200

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