ATI video comes out of the closet
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 04:31:54 UTC 2007
Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>>> nVidia themselves are doing more work for
>>>> the Linux version since they can't count on a stable interface.
>>> And Windows has a stable interface? Again, I refer you to Vista.
>> It is stable for many years at a time.
>
> So are certain Linux distributions. It depends what you want.
I want applications that aren't years out of date, with a kernel that
doesn't break the drivers regularly with updates. I haven't found such
a distribution yet.
>
>>>> Fedora could redistribute the driver as provided by nVidia but
>>>> chooses not to.
>>> If they were willing to have hidden code they're legally unable to
>>> modify.
>> Or if they cared about their user experience...
>
> Right, I'm sure Fedora developers want to spite their users.
Maybe it's just a side effect that no one cares about then. RHEL seems
to care enough to break things less often.
>> Firewire is still a good example.
>
> Don't know what you're talking about, so I'll guess. Linux supports
> 1394b, but Vista doesn't
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire#Operating_system_support)?
I don't know anything about Vista and will wait until it is stable
before finding out. Try depending on the fedora version. It regularly
goes months at a time with various parts broken. I've never had trouble
on a Mac.
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Les Mikesell
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