nvidia vs kmod-nvidia

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Dec 11 01:21:22 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 09:21 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> I suppose you could argue that it's to much work for nvidia to support
> one of the largest Linux distros. However, they seem to handle 
> supporting Windows okay, but then again, there's a much larger market 
> share and I'm sure there's a greater financial incentive.
>  
> It would be nice to see nVidia support FC by incorporating livna, but 
> then again, I also understand it's easier for them from many many 
> perspectives to make the drivers available and let the distro fend for
> itself.

Better to have a few repos with just about all you need, than having to
configure your system with masses of repos, one for each bit of special
hardware you have on your system (video cards, LAN NICs, sound cards,
I/O cards, etc.).





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