NVIDIA Releases Yet Another Linux Driver [2008]

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases Yet Another Linux Driver

In the past week we've seen the NVIDIA 177.67 binary driver for Linux which was outdone by the NVIDIA 177.68 driver just two days later. The 177.70 Beta driver was then released this morning with fixes and other enhancements since the 177.68 driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjY4MQ

[stan]

Back in March Phoronix wagered a laptop for how confident they were about an NVIDIA open source strategy. Half a year later, Nvision 2008 has come and gone with no open source announcement in sight. Has NVIDIA played Phoronix (and all the others who've bought their junk hardware on the false promise) for a fool?

[deanjo]

Originally Posted by stan

Back in March Phoronix wagered a laptop for how confident they were about an NVIDIA open source strategy. Half a year later, Nvision 2008 has come and gone with no open source announcement in sight. Has NVIDIA played Phoronix (and all the others who've bought their junk hardware on the false promise) for a fool?

They gave their answer a few months back

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2588

[stan]

Originally Posted by deanjo

They gave their answer a few months back

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2588

Right, and the day after (June 24th) Phoronix was still holding onto hope that an open-source strategy will be announced at Nvision:

If NVIDIA intends to make an announcement of an open-source strategy, we are betting on it taking place at their NVISION 08 conference in August.

[oblidor]

Originally Posted by stan

Right, and the day after (June 24th) Phoronix was still holding onto hope that an open-source strategy will be announced at Nvision:

Today the news came that X58 will have SLI. NVIDIA had to change their policy or be out of the game... On Open Source drivers from NVIDIA, I think this is probably at least 1-2 year off. Much will be determined on how AMD(ATI) does saleswise I think...

But that said, NVIDIA has supported Linux a lot more than ATI ever bothered, so ATI has some work to be done in order to get a better rep. Seemed that AMD was the tipping point.

[stan]

Originally Posted by oblidor

On Open Source drivers from NVIDIA, I think this is probably at least 1-2 year off.

I will avoid NVIDIA hardware like the plague until they take concrete steps to provide a viable open source driver.

[ovi44]

Nvision 2008 has come and gone with no open source announcement in sight. Has NVIDIA played Phoronix (and all the others who've bought their junk hardware on the false promise) for a fool.

[deanjo]

Originally Posted by ovi44

Nvision 2008 has come and gone with no open source announcement in sight. Has NVIDIA played Phoronix (and all the others who've bought their junk hardware on the false promise) for a fool.

I don't think anyone bought their hardwardware from nvidia based on it's opensource strategy. They bought it because it works period.

[remm]

Originally Posted by deanjo

They gave their answer a few months back

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2588

Yes, their claim is that it is useless. Now, THAT's arrogance, folks.

[Vadi]

Nice!

OpenGL 3.0, suspend/resume work great, nothing else to ask from me

(except maybe to release the driver as open-source so loud people who aren't helping coding nv but posting on forums instead can keep quiet!)