On Wed, 2006-15-02 at 14:18 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > 2006-02-14 (火) の 11:49 -0600 に Les Mikesell さんは書きました: > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:49, Guy Fraser wrote: > > > > > > > > Nvidia, ESS, S3, et al, don't have to buy documents to find out how to > > > > make their hardware work on Linux, but they don't. They'd like, if they > > > > > > Just for clarity, are you saying NVidia does not provide drivers for > > > Linux? > > > They most certainly do, and they are good drivers. They may have a > > > binary component which is not open source, but that is not relevant > > > to this topic. > > > > No, that should be a different topic: How the GPL sabotages open > > source adoption. The GPL restrictions have done more to > > maintain the Microsoft monopoly than any Microsoft employee. > > Biases and misperceptions about the GPL have done ... > > > Even when a vendor tries their best to supply drivers it > > doesn't work out very well and they aren't accepted in the > > distributions. > > So, *BSD should have better driver availability that Linux? (Except for > openBSD, since Theo enforces the mutual free licensing principle outside > the contract.) For the most part, unfortunately yes. FreeBSD supported many SATA chip sets before Linux. I am not sure what else it supports better, because we only use it on servers. When I tryed to use it for a workstation, it was difficult to set up, and there was no support for CD-ROM access in wine. Since wine was seriously broken for extended periods by RH, I no longer use it, but use tsclient, and have an old Compaq running Win2k for the apps I need. FreeBSD does support tsclient, but is still a bear to configure as a workstation. > > Is there a full moon out tonight? > > > > > -- > > Les Mikesell > > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > > >
