Re: DragonflyBSD on the desktop (was: Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system)

[Thomas Schlesinger <schlesinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006 21:41 schrieb Matthew Dillon:
> :Is there an official binary driver policy for DragonFly?  I understand
> :people want the fast GUI and stuff to work, but giving in to the crap
> :that companies push on the open source community isn't acceptable in
> :my opinion.  Its just going to ultimately prolong the problem and
> :diminish the efforts of people trying to get companies to open up
> :their drivers.
> :
> :Personally, I would say its good if you don't support the likes of nvidia.
> :
> :-Kevin
>
>     I am not particularly interested in supporting binary only drivers
>     considering past experience where the vendors have supplied them, but
>     then not bothered to keep them up to date or fix bugs or support
>     new versions of the OS.  NVidia has been especially anti-social in
>     this regard.  If we want anything that 'lasts', it has to be native.
>
> 					-Matt

For NVidia, may be the driver code for Haiku OS (ex OpenBeOS) could be 
helpful: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/be-hold/BeOS/NVdriver/index.html

Thomas