"Nouveau is a community project that is working on producing open-source 3D display drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards. Nouveau is not affiliated with Nvidia Corp and is an X.Org project. While this project is still far from being completed, for this holiday special we are sharing some of our first thoughts on this project from our experience thus far. We would like to make it very clear, however, that the Nouveau driver is no where near completed and still has a great deal of work ahead for the 3D component. This article today will also hopefully shed some light on the advancements of this project so far."
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Member since:2005-07-06
I have nothing against closed source drivers, they're fabulous! and I certainly will use them when I require - but at the same time, these companies need to stop thinking that the *NIX world revolves around Linux.
What about those who run OpenSolaris? FreeBSD? OpenBSD? I mean, honestly, if OpenSound can support all those platforms with such a limited number of programmers, it shouldn't be a hard task to provide atleast an equal level of support for alternative platforms - right now, but Nvidia and ATI do an incredibly crap job at it.
Nvidia isn't the only company who can get pulled up for this; Intel and their ipw3945 driver, and their stupid decision to release it under a GPL licence instead of dual licencing so that it could be ported to run on non-GPL operating systems like FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/OpenSolaris.
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2005-11-06
I'm positive there are too many patents/IP/third party matters for both Nvidia and ATI to completely open source their drivers, and I have nothing against closed source drivers, but I do hope they'll be able to create the drivers with decent specs.
The biggest advantage I see is excellent integration with X.org for accelerated KDE/Gnome/XFCE/fluxbox/etc...
One more reason to stick with Nvidia hardware.