Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 14, 2007 12:28 UTC (Wed) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

- Compiz and Beryl are a bit immature still, and the feature freeze for Feisty was on 8th of Feb
- ATI's non-free drivers don't even work with Composite and AIGLX, even though the open source drivers do, so why include those, other than 2D support for X1000-series of ATI Radeons, which would be nice but probably not worth the pain of getting ATI's binary drivers to work fluently without breaking other things like Mesa's libGL that is needed by the open source 3D drivers
- Open source Nouveau drivers for NVIDIA are in development, so why install non-free drivers in Feisty by default if they are possibly replaced by Nouveau in Feisty+1 (about which people would again complain), especially taking into account that getting even the NVIDIA binary drivers work nicely with the rest of system, without breaking GPL, or breaking when some component is updated, is not trivial

Posted Feb 14, 2007 12:49 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

Quote: "Neither Compiz nor Beryl have the requisite stability and compatibility to be a default option in Feisty."