Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 30th Sep 2002 01:10 UTC
Gentoo, Lindows and Lycoris arguably were the big surprises of the year in the Linux land, but everyone is waiting the release of Red Hat 8.0 with, possibly, the biggest anticipation ever for a Linux distribution. Since Red Hat posted the Limbo and Null betas, fans of the most popular distribution on earth were making waves and even called this new version a Windows killer. Does this really hold up though? Will Red Hat be successful on their quest to infiltrate the business workstation/destkop market? Read more to find out and view some of the high resolution screenshots we have for you! UPDATE: Red Hat 8 is out! ZDNews has an article about the new release of Red Hat 8.0.
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>>Have you ever thought that they may need to adjust things?
If yes, you should either adjust your OS to work with the drivers, simply because nvidia drivers are important, and if that's not possible, you PARTNER with them. Red Hat is not the 4-people company of Lycoris. They are now big and respected. They should *partner* with big hardware vendors.
Eugenia - I have much respect for your work but..
...no dice! An operating system absolutely should NOT be "adjusted to work with xxxx," whether the device is from NVidia, Maxtrox, ATI, Western Digital, or IBM. When you and I bought NVidia, we knew that we'd be at risk (or at least, beholden to NVidia for updates).
The main problem I have with closed source drivers is that they are unknown quantities. For example, let's say we come up with a new way to leverage unused 3D accelerator chips to do matrix math. I just can't get it working with my WhizBang ABC video card. Only by disassembling the binary do we find the video driver unnecessarily disabling 3D calculations each time the screen is redrawn. Even though we found the problem, we can't fix it and distribute the fix! In other words YOU would have to fix it yourself, or hope that WhizBang gives an answer.
Clearly the right solution is for WhizBang to publish the specifications. Is WhizBang's hardware truly better than the competitions? Or is it only that optimized drivers lets them win benchmarks?
Something else to consider: RedHat and many other distros try to obey the GPL; one of the main strengths of Linux is that you can modify it yourself. NVidia's license does not allow this.
P.S. I'm not attacking NVidia; I own a TNT2, GEForce4, ATI AllInWonder (tv-in/out), and ATI Radeon 7500. I won't tell you "you should've bought the Radeon" or "You don't need to use that high-refresh rate anyhow".
ATI's site they tell you that "[We are considering allowing you to use the tv-out that you purchased] under Linux. in the meantime go to the Gatos project, where people are trying to figure out what we won't tell them."