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Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)
Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)
Posted Nov 15, 2006 17:08 UTC (Wed) by Seegras (guest, #20463)Parent article: Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)
The main Problem I have with the closed-source drivers is not that it's not easy to install (I'm using Debian Etch or Sid). It's that they're subjectively less stable, and more likely to break, than open source drivers. And not only the ATI ones, which are somewhat brittle, but the NVIDIA ones too.
I'm pragamtic, as long as they are the only way to get decent 3D-performance, I will use them, but I would prefer open-source drivers.
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