Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:57:17 +0000 | From | Tomas Carnecky <> | Subject | Re: Binary Drivers |
| |
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +0000, James Porter wrote: >> For what it's worth, I don't see any problem with binary drivers from hardware >> manufacturers. > > Binary drivers from hardware manufacturers are crap. Learn it by heart. >
That's your personal opinion! A lot other people (including me) have had excellent experience with binary drivers!
>> Just because nvidia makes a closed source driver doesn't mean that we can't also >> create an open source driver(limited functionality, reverse engineered, >> etc.,etc.). > > We can. >
The day you show me that the open-source driver is faster and more stable then the binary driver, I'll switch. But until then I'll stay with my binary driver. I haven't had any serious problems with it, in fact, I'm very happy, so why should I want to switch?
I don't see Linux in such a political way like some of you do, for me Linux is just like any other OS. There are good drivers and bad drivers. And I don't care if they are open source or binary, I don't judge them based on that, but based on how well they work and how good the support is.
> But users of binary drivers should be blocked from sending bug reports > to kernel developers. >
Most end-users will never get directly in touch with the kernel developers. They'll first go to their distribution. Most Ubuntu users don't even know what a kernel is (not that I use Ubuntu, but it's a distribution that is widespread among the less experienced end-users and people who switch to Linux from the windows world).
tom - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |