Linked by Rahul on Sun 2nd Nov 2008 19:24 UTC
Greg Kroah-Hartman is a longtime developer of the Linux kernel, known for his work maintaining USB drivers. O'Reilly Media recently interviewed Greg about his claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has, as well as why binary-only drivers are illegal, and how the kernel development process works.
"I went and asked every single hardware manufacturer, the big guys that ship the boxes, Dell, IBM, HP--what do you ship that isn't supported by Linux? They came back with nothing. Everything is supported by Linux. If you have a device that isn't supported by Linux that's being shipped today, let me know.".
If you would like to take up Greg KH on his claim, his email address is greg AT kroah.com
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Member since:2005-07-06
Perhaps, nobody told you yet but Linux has pretty much no development happening to be platform for gamers. The situation has not improved much regardless of what Nvidia does.
OpenGL is entirely different however and continues to be successful especially because a large majority of its use is actually outside gaming.
Member since:2007-01-22
OpenGL is successful as a niche but not as competition for DirectX. I'm more concerned about getting a viable alternative to Microsoft than whether everything is 100% pure open source.
I don't think Apple cares about games that much either...unless they are for the iphone.
Edited 2008-11-02 23:05 UTC
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2007-01-22
the reality is that nvidia is very important and it affects the idea of linux as a commercial gaming platform. And that makes a difference in whether OpenGL will compete with DirectX or not.