AMD KMS/DRM Driver Moves Along For FreeBSD

[CthuIhux]

This is good news.

This is also a great step ahead towards GPGPU usage for FreeBSD on basis of OpenCL.

And no one will use it. What a waste of time and resources.

Despite the fact nVidia provides a useful BLOB for FreeBSD *NIX, for unknown reasons nVidia doesn't support CUDA or OpenCL on FreeBSD. This will not change until the opensource drivers for AMD will provide that in a reasonable and useable way.

Example of FreeBSD making a deal with one of many devils (nVidia). Not surprisingly, nVidia doesn't seem to give as much back to BSD. That's why GPL is better.

This academic OS has lost ground in a desastrous way , especially in the academic area.

BSD is not an academic OS (even when it is still at Berkeley). It's a slave OS designed to be exploited by evil corperations.

BUt even with success like this, we are eons away from getting useful AMD drivers for modern hardware. Without nVidia, FreeBSD/*BSD users and admins would be pinpointed to old GPU hardware.

I've got a better ideal: DUMP BSD, SWITCH TO LINUX

[Sergio]

Please see the second post in this forum: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=56916

Hey, nadir. I just want to say: keep it up! You are actually encouraging people to give FreeBSD a try. I want to thank you for that. Could you please keep this thread popular and create more FreeBSD threads?
All this time I couldn't see how your stupidness help promote the *BSD world. I'm really starting to like you, pal. Seriously, keep it up!

[Nobu]

See almost every post in this thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=18977

They seem a lot more reasonable than you make them out to be.

Btw, I have tried FreeBSD already, or else I wouldn't be looking forward to trying it in the future. The saying "The grass is always greener on the other side" comes to mind...only in your case it's more like "the grass is never, and never will be greener on the other side"; a rather "glass is half-empty" way of looking at things. Not a good way to approach anything, in my opinion.

Ah, that food is probably poisioned, I'll stick with mine. How do you ever enjoy yourself?

[tvall]

Example of FreeBSD making a deal with one of many devils (nVidia). Not surprisingly, nVidia doesn't seem to give as much back to BSD. That's why GPL is better.

you seem to be forgetting that nvidia doesn't contribute to nouveau either. on every os its all proprietary blobs. the gpl doesn't help you in any way there.

I've got a better ideal: DUMP BSD, SWITCH TO LINUX

posts like this is the reason i decided to try freebsd, and why I'm now moving my servers to it. if someone will spew as much bullshit as the m$ guys do with linux, it must be pretty good.

[CthuIhux]

posts like this is the reason i decided to try freebsd, and why I'm now moving my servers to it. if someone will spew as much bullshit as the m$ guys do with linux, it must be pretty good.

In which case, you need to be admitted to a mental hospital

[Vim_User]

In which case, you need to be admitted to a mental hospital

At least he has servers. Do you? Any real world experience? I doubt so.