Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Oct 2009 22:10 UTC, submitted by Michael
"In late August we started asking our readers for any questions they had for NVIDIA about Linux and this graphics company's support of open-source operating systems. Twelve pages worth of questions were accumulated and we finally have the answers to a majority of them. NVIDIA's Andy Ritger, who leads the user-space side of the NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Driver team for workstation, desktop, and notebook GPUs, answered these questions. With that said, there are some great, in-depth technical answers and not the usual marketing speak found in many interviews."
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2009-07-08
I've been in computer graphics for 20+ years now. All I can say is no one in this business would consider anything but Nvidia for its graphics solutions. Intel is out of the question and ATI has a minimal impact with its FireGL/FirePRO cards, while Radeons are simply not used either (GeForces on the other side, do their job pretty well.)
I've found the interview very sensible and hopeful. All these discussions about open source are interesting to a bunch of FOSS fanatics only. No one in the real world cares about the nature of the source code in their drivers. What we care about is driver quality and Nvidia is just so far ahead (even in Windows) that there's simply no discussion.
On a side note, the idea that a graphics driver is holding the Linux desktop back is just ridiculous.