Comments on: /dev/urandom http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/2524 Embrace your Inner Penguin Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:38:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Temporal http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/2524/comment-page-1#comment-583 Temporal Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-583 Regarding the transcription from the nVidia interview, there are a few more important quotes. My favorite is when he points out that all of the over 100 software engineers at nVidia are essentially working on the Linux drivers, since they use the same code base as the Windows ones. This is a definate advantage that wouldn’t be possible if they had used DRI. It also shows alot more direct support for Linux than any other graphics card company has shown. (As I understand it, ATI and Matrox are each paying for one PI engineer to work on Linux drivers.) Sure, I’d prefer open source drivers, but I’d rather have the strong Linux support nVidia is showing than the weak support shown by most companies.

]]> By: EvilBill http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/2524/comment-page-1#comment-584 EvilBill Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-584 I will second what Temporal had to say in that I would prefer open source drivers but I am quite happy with the strong support nVidia is showing.

]]> By: Seeq http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/2524/comment-page-1#comment-585 Seeq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-585 The excuse to not open source the driver because it has SGI intellectual property is suspect because SGI has open sourced openGL. I am sure that SGI who is opening lots of stuff, VA/Linux who believes in open source, and Nvidia could come to an agreement on opening the driver at anytime.

Calling the openGL that grew out of MESA GL ‘fakeGL’ is kind of childish, especially since it will be able to pass the same qualification tests with time.

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