Re: Linux on all new iron
- From: Biffster <biffster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:52:53 -0500
On 2007-08-13, Nicolas George <nicolas$george@xxxxxxxxxxx> rambled on thusly:
Note that only 2D acceleration is available on Nvidia cards with free
drivers. If you only want to do 2D, something cheaper and less
power-hungry will be good enough.
Not true. The 3d support from nVidia is superb.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
These drivers are not free. You do not have to give away money, but you have
to sell your soul to have them.
Wow... could you be a little more dramatic there?
For those who don't know, nvidia's drivers are not open-source. They are
proprietary, and binary-only. If you are trying to keep a completely
free/open source system, then using the nvidia drivers will taint that (and
on some distros, including Debian, you'll get a warning that the nvidia
module taints the kernel).
If you are less strict on the FOSS issue, though, then the nvidia drivers
really do kick ass.
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Michael Fierro (aka Biffster) biffster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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