On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:59 PM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/15/10 1:31 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:50:12 -0700 James McKenzie wrote: >>> On 10/14/10 1:52 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: >>>> This post has raised some heat in blog comments and also in Fedora >>>> mailing list discussion. >>> Discussing OpenSource versus Proprietary always brings heat. Folks have >>> to remember thought, that the OpenSource drivers do not support features >>> and products that the proprietary drivers do, due to the 'hiding' of >>> information by Vendors and the time it takes to black box test a >>> particular feature. That is a fact of life and we all need to keep that >>> in mind when someone asks: >>> >>> "Open or closed source"? >>> >>> Well what video card do you have and what do you plan to do with it? >>> >>> Older model, 2D and simple 3D: Open Source, almost always. >>> Newer model (not on the OSS driver supported list) or complex 3D. >>> Proprietary, mainly. As the OSS driver picks up more features AND the >>> video card becomes 'older' then the OSS driver should be selected over >>> proprietary. >>> >>> Simple answer, complex solution as information has to be gathered and >>> suggestions should be made with caveats "This works for me" or "Your >>> Mileage May Vary". >>> >>> No need to argue here. This is about as cut and dried as it can be >>> made. Some folks swear by Open Source, others at it. Some swear by >>> nVidia/Catalyst/Intel, others at it. Nobody is ever going to be >>> completely satisfied by someone else's solution if they are not doing >>> EXACTLY the same things. >>> >>> James McKenzie >> A voice of reason on this issue. Amazing. :-) >> >> As for me, on every new Fedora release I install (currently running F13) >> I try the latest open source driver first. Then I install the NVidia >> driver (from the rpmfusion-nonfree repo). The latter has not yet failed >> to be snapper when running the KDE Desktop Effects than the former. >> That's on my desktop machines. >> > Hopefully the Open Source community will figure out how to support your > unique configuration and make us all happy. Until then, you have to do > what you have to do. > > Thank you for the nice comment too. I tend to live in the commercial > world but use Fedora/CentOS in my private life. > > James McKenzie I'll probably keep away from NVidia drivers for now, even if more people voted for them. Just because I would like to test Nuveao driver on different NVidia cards and see for myself how do they work. -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt blog: http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless, ronjenje, pametne kuće, zwave registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
