On 5/27/2010 1:49 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >>> >>> Ah, no, it's not. Brian had it right: nvidia does keep a lot >>> proprietary, and does *not* pay a lot of attention to writing their >>> own drivers for Linux. >> >> Exactly - and it is linux that intentionally makes it difficult to >> impossible to use such software even if others would like to give it to >> you on their own terms. Just put the blame in the right place. > > Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote. How does Linux make it > "difficult to impossible"? It's an o/s, with POSIX calls, just like all > the other unices. It's not M$, and it's not Apple... so is being neither > making it hard? For one thing, the license terms do not permit including software with differing terms (hence no zfs, etc. even though source is freely available), and for another the interfaces keep changing so binaries can't be expected to work after updates. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com