[Ambassadors] The lack of quality video drivers is destroying Fedora.

[Avi Alkalay]

As far as I know, Livna policy is to only include open source software. It
is a repo for patent-problematic, but yet open source software. So MPEG-4,
MP3, AAC, H.264, Xvid, MPlayer etc stuff -- that all has open source
implementations -- are available on Livna, and this is enough for playing
virtually all multimedia content you can get.

Also, the nVidia and ATI drivers at Livna are the open source ones -- not
the original, more feature rich, more powerful, 3D capable, binary ones.
I believe there is also a license problem when you download the original
binary drivers, repackage them and put them someplace else for downloading.
They are not freely distributable, I think. So if you repackage these binary
drivers you are violating their licence for distribution.

What I think Livna (or other repo) could do is what the JPackage project
does for a long time: provide nosrc.rpm packages.
These are only the source RPM without the license-problematic stuff. From
the user perspective, he'll have to download the nosrc.rpm file plus the ZIP
file from ATI/nVidia web site and issue one simple rpmbuild command to get
the installable RPM.

Altought I understand the political and religious guidelines of the Fedora
project, I still believe this is a huge problem that should be discussed and
fixed somehow. So in this point, I don't agree with Paul Stauffer in his
previous e-mail.

Regards,
Avi

2008/9/29 Shambo Bose <shambo.linux at gmail.com>

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> 2008/9/29 Juan M. Rodriguez <nushio at gmail.com>
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>> 2008/9/29 Shambo Bose <shambo.linux at gmail.com>
>>
>>> hello
>>>
>>> We can always create a secondary non free repository which will contain
>>> all the free drivers and packages[ which is not open source]
>>> and the mp3 part is ok... they are playing mp3 in that way.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Shambo Bose
>>>
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>> "We can always create a secondary non free repository"
>>
>> We already have one, its called Livna[1], they provide packages for both
>> ATI and Nvidia cards that are packaged for Fedora, which would mean no
>> conflicts with existing drivers. They are sometimes hours-to-days behind
>> kernel updates (Specifically security kernel updates) which leaves users
>> with dependency conflicts (Either update the kernel and lose the drivers, or
>> stay insecure for some time)
>>
>> [1] http://rpm.livna.org
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
>> Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos
>> Sitio: http://proyectofedora.org/mexico
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>> Hello
>
> The livna graphics drivers does not support 3D hardware Acceleration . Is
> livna a official fedora repository?
>
> regards,
> Shambo Bose
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