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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> To binary or not to binary, that is the question
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> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The Ubuntu developers are in the process of deciding whether
>| to enable binary-only drivers by default in their installation
>| process, under certain limited circumstances. This decision
>| process has prompted the latest wave in a conversation that's
>| nearly as old as Linux itself.
> `----
>
> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/binary_drivers.html
>
> Sabayon are also pretty much in violation of the GPL...
>
> Yes, we include proprietary drivers, so ?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Since the first RR4 releases, called "Gentoo Rescue Reiser4 LiveCD",
>| I included NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers. Two years are past
>| since then, and no one never complained about that. But now, I
>| read that many people say that's a GPL violation. I do not agree
>| with them. They argue that linking a non-GPL kernel module against
>| the Linux Kernel before distributing it, is illegal.
> `----
>
> http://www.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=2
>
> Also see:
>
> http://www.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=258&Itemid=2
The proper solution is to have open-source drivers for 3d cards, and
everything else, for that matter. My No1 son´s mac G5 ppc is now
running ubuntu/debian happily, but his nvidia geforce 3d card has no 3d
driver, although the nv driver works well. If there were a proper
open-source 3d driver, then he´d be super-happy at this point, as he´d
have all the opengl apps working too.
If anyone can point me to a graphics card with 3d driver for ppc, please
let me know!
--
| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time.
-- D. Gries
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