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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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