Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !

[Kim Lux]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 14:11 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> > Can you imagine if we had to build drivers in this manner for EVERY
> > piece of hardware on our computers ?  Should we be applauding Nvidia
> for
> > their approach to Linux OS support ?  I think not !
> 
> Newsflash: that's how it used to work, if you had anything beyond
> a few select SCSI host adapters.

I've been running Linux since 1.3.18, so I understand that. 

> > I'd love to know how an admin with 200 PCs with nvidia cards would
> > handle this.
> 
> The admin wouldn't run testing code, would blindly update with 
> "yum update" and, more generally, would not be as incompetent as you 
> appear to be.  That is, an admin with 200 PCs to support would not
> have
> gotten in the position you did in the first place. 

Granted he wouldn't run yum update.  But he would upgrade kernels from
time to time.  I guess he would build the nvidia module on one and
distribute it to each machine to be installed at the same time as the
kernel.  Big pain.  

-- 
Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.