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Desktop Linux moves towards unified API

Desktop Linux moves towards unified API

Posted Jul 7, 2006 12:53 UTC (Fri) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: Desktop Linux moves towards unified API by mrshiny
Parent article: Linux moves towards unified APIs (IT Week)

This case is a bit harder because what the customers/consumers want short time is not what they want long time. Most users would kill for nvidias non-free driver to be included in Linus' kernel. Ironically, this would also kill the Linux kernel, which is not what they want. These things are complicated.


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