GPL concerns halt Kororaa live CD (NewsForge)

Posted May 16, 2006 8:50 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

For all this talk about 'Stable ABI'.. the operating system with a stable ABI is Solaris and it has shit for hardware support compared to linux and out of the hardware it does support you often have to pay for your drivers.

Linux, out of the box, not only supports more hardware then any other operating system in existance it also supports all that hardware on all the platforms that Linux runs on. All new stuff and all this old stuff.

I've personally abandoned Nvidia crack.

Sure it's nice to have very fast 3d drivers, but I am tired of the corruption and crashing and giving money to a company that refuses to support my operating system properly.

Now I am experiancing very positive results with my new Pentium-D machine with a Asus running the intel 945g chipset with the GMA 950 onboard video. Later on I plan on buying a used X600 ATI card (basicly a 9600 in PCIe formfactor) from a friend to try out the r300_dri.so drivers.

They aren't perfect, of course. But they are fast enough for what I need at this time and hopefully the r300_dri drivers mature enough so that I can have nicer cards supported.

Posted May 18, 2006 2:18 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

I can only concur. Solaris was a pain in the neck to keep up to date, and sucked baby elephants through straws in performance (first step with a new Sun was what somebody called GNU > /usr/local, and then replace X with a self-compiled package from X.org). Plus the joy of seeing your perfectly working (if somewhat slow) machine discontinued for further OS updates... and that could very well be one of your central servers.

And some november day, a round of security updates reinstalled a "remote administration tool" with widely known vulnerabilities, and promptly some 31337 (sp?) dude proceeded to administer our machines remotely. Solaris lasted a fortnight on them after that...