[sclug] Desktop distro recommendations
Alex Butcher
lug at assursys.co.uk
Mon Apr 5 09:21:57 UTC 2004
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Nvidia have released the source code for their drivers
No, they have not.
What they have released is a great gob of object code (about 1MByte, IIRC)
that is linked with a little glue code and runs in kernel space as a module.
In theory, the glue code should ensure that the driver continues to work
with future kernels (although the glue code may need hacking) and this has
been borne out - SO FAR. I'm not sure I'd want to invest 300GBP+ in an
nVidia card with the assumption it will continue to work with all future
Linux kernels though.
> HTH
> Chris
Best Regards,
Alex.
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