Re: I upgraded my Dapper and imagine my surprise...

Lee Revell wrote:

Dude, it's not a religious argument, it's a technical one. Sure, most
users won't notice the difference, until they encounter a bug in the
kernel and are told it can't be debugged with a proprietary driver

They're almost _never_ going to find such a thing. I've been using Linux
for 7 or 8 years now, and have never once encountered a bug in the kernel
that I worried about.

loaded. Then they're back in Windows land, at the mercy of Microsoft
(or Nvidia) to someday fix their problem.

Or if they _do_ encounter a kernel bug, they're at the mercy of the Linux
developers to someday fix their problem. It just isn't something people
have to worry about. Sure, we'd like nvidia to release a full spec so that
developers could write good free drivers, but when you keep threatening
doom and gloom if people use the binary-only driver, that's a religious
argument.
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derek


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