GPL concerns halt Kororaa live CD (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

GPL concerns halt Kororaa live CD (NewsForge)

Posted May 16, 2006 8:50 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: GPL concerns halt Kororaa live CD (NewsForge) by einstein
Parent article: GPL concerns halt Kororaa live CD (NewsForge)

Hell ya.

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.

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