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Its earth-shattering because its an entirely volunteer project, where once there was nothing but proprietary blobs for us to run. This is significant because 3
by primitur 14y ago
Its earth-shattering because its an entirely volunteer project, where once there was nothing but proprietary blobs for us to run. This is significant because 3D-acceleration has been an Achilles heel in the Linux desktop world for ages .. and now the community has sorted it. This is GREAT news!
- cookiecaper 14y agoIt's not earth-shattering. This is nothing new; several older models have gone through the same process over the years. It has been happening for a long time. This article is just exaggerating the real news item: firmware can be supplied by nouveau for all available SKUs, including Kepler/Fermi chips. nouveau is an awesome project, but this is not a huge thing. It's not going to make Linux gaming explode overnight. It's just normal iterative progress, which, don't get me wrong, is great and all, but it's not a big deal like this article suggests.