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New NVIDIA Linux Display Drivers Version 1.0-9746 Released
nvidia.com — Open source drivers for NVIDIA nForce hardware are included in the standard Linux kernel and leading Linux distributions. This page includes information on open source drivers, and driver disks for older Linux distributions including 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Linux.
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- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not good enough, NVidia.
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| Drivers that are binary-only or contain a binary-only portion
| (binary blob) run on the computer, in the computer's memory.
| They typically run at the most privileged security level possible
| due to their requirements to talk to system memory and the like.
| This gives them access to anything on your system, and if they
| screw up it can be a disaster. These drivers are unportable and
| typically limited to a handful of architectures. With drivers
| that have full source available, people can see what the driver
| is doing and make corrections as required, this is something
| that can't be done with drivers that contain binary components.
| People who use binary drivers become dependent on the vendors
| who provide them for fixing bugs and if a vendor decides to
| drop the driver, you're out of luck. Not running the latest
| hardware with the latest approved software? Sorry, too bad.
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http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557
Help change this... for the sake of the future, as well as security.
...pledge at least $10 USD towards the development of the open source nouveau
driver for the nvidia card series...
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| For the longest time nvidia have failed to provide specifications
| for their hardware or a working free accelerated 3d driver for
| inclusion with X.org. Thus leaving the many users of their
| videocards on popular UN*X systems such as Linux with only the
| option of using a 2d only driver or using nvidia' notorious
| proprietary driver.
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| With the advent of technological improvements to the underlying
| system to allow desktop effects this leaves a great number of users
| out in the cold. A project does exists to reverse engineer a driver
| for the existing nvidia cards, however this is a hard task which
| will require many man hours to complete. Thus the aim to present
| the Nouveau team with this no strings attached donation of at least
| $10.000 USD to further their nobel effort in developing this driver.
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http://www.pledgebank.com/nouveaudriver - dburanen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How about a changelog? The site doesn't have it but I'm hoping a comment from someone will!
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