NVidia says no to request to release open source drivers, once again

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I keep hearing that...

Though it's something I don't experience myself. I've never had to reinstall the driver after a kernel upgrade though, admittedly, that's done with a meta package that will grab the new kernel and any new drivers needed that match the kernel upgrade.

I'm not a gamer nor will I ever be but I do a lot of 3D work (Blender) and I rely on the NVidia drivers for that and NVidia hardware for the simple reason that it does OpenGL massively better than Intel or ATI.

If you have to jump through all the gymnastics you say you do then I'd complain to the distro maintainers not NVidia.

In principle I support the call for open source drivers but NVidia seems to be wearing a lot of the spew for far worse examples like Broadcom and Atheros.

ttfn

John

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