Re: NVIDIA Question

[Jesse Keating <hosting j2solutions net>]

On Friday 25 July 2003 08:09, David St.Clair wrote:
> So, what's keeping RedHat from putting the drivers in the distribution? If
> it's a GPL
> thing, would it be easy to just download it during installation or at
> least give the option to the user?

It's a closed source thing.  Red Hat doesn't distribute any closed source 
software anymore (that I know of).  It's impossible to support, and it taints 
your kernel.

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