Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Sep 2009 22:29 UTC, submitted by lemur2

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A binary driver fails with the first kernel update.
Actually, it usually just gets recompiled at boot. Atleast on my Mandriva it does.
Nope. Just plain no. Shun binary drivers. We now have specifications for, and open source drivers for, fully-funtional competitive-performance ATI cards.
And STILL the open-source drivers for older ATi cards lack all kinds of features whereas the nVidia's binary-only drivers for similarly old hardware support all their features and work just peachy.
You can blather all you want about open-source superiority, but I have only been let down by the open-source ATi and nVidia drivers.