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Credit where credit is dueCredit where credit is duePosted Mar 15, 2009 0:47 UTC (Sun) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)In reply to: Credit where credit is due by jspaleta Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem
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There surely was never any danger of that. If bias were black body radiation, you'd be glowing at about 3500K. (Which hurts your credibility substantially. And likely not just with me.)
Now, I certainly don't care for NVidia keeping their drivers closed source. But in my experience with graphics drivers under Linux (which goes back to VooDoo1 and the original, pre Daryll Strauss, glide driver, and having lived through the hell that has been FOSS Radeon driver, I'd have to say that on all the cards I've had, including some NVidias, the NVidia driver has been flawless compared to the big mess that the usually incomplete FOSS video drivers often seem to be.
I wish that were not that case. But it has been my experience for about 10 years now.
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Credit where credit is due Posted Mar 15, 2009 1:15 UTC (Sun) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
I guess your 10 year streak of good luck is the silver lining of hopeful comfort for all the Ubuntu users running the nvidia drivers and experiencing lock ups when exiting World of Goo. And I'm sure the upstream kernel developers are willing to discount their own long experience looking at crash reports now that you've made us aware of your high regard of the nvidia driver's stability.
I like that vibe you've got going on there. One man's personal experience against a mountain of contrary opinion and evidence. That's the sort of awe inspiring situational awareness and view of the big picture that causes me to respect opponents to global warming and evolutionary theory so very very highly. I salute you!
I'm really glad the Ubuntu developers decided to finally enable kerneloop reporting so we can get a more comprehensive and unbiased view of the sources of instability in the Ubuntu kernel. Though I'm not sure they are in the kerneloops.org database yet. I personally fully expect that the Ubuntu experience will be much like the Fedora one in the kerneloops record. The proprietary drivers will dominate the crash reporting statistics...Canonical will introduce some bugs via patches, which will be quickly fixed (just as Fedora has)...but the proprietary driver bugs, like nvidia, will linger and linger...contrary to your singular personal experience.
-jef
Credit where credit is due Posted Mar 15, 2009 12:23 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
What's wrong with the FOSS radeon driver? I've had no trouble with it
(mach64 and now 9250). 3D is fast enough for my purposes, 2D is blinding (and is now even faster thanks to a not-yet-committed patch from Michel Dänzer to defragment the EXA glyph cache)... I've had a total of one crash in ten years, and that was due to a device-independent Mesa bug.
Credit where credit is due Posted Mar 16, 2009 1:18 UTC (Mon) by motk (subscriber, #51120) [Link]
I plugged a USB thumbdrive into my x86-64 machine running then nvidia driver last night and the driver crashed, hard. WTF?
Of course, anecdote != data, but the kerneloops website tells the story.
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