Major PC Vendors Push For Open Source Drivers

[w1z4rd]

"Remember the heat the Linux Foundation took for allegedly not giving enough attention to Desktop Linux? The latest events at the Foundation's annual summit paint a different picture. Industry heavyweights like Dell, HP, and Lenovo 'announced on stage that they will now include wording in their hardware procurement processes to "strongly encourage" the delivery of open source drivers'. The move specifically targets desktop and mobile products."

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/29/2044244

Hooray!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

This was bound to happen sooner or later, and about time too...

 

[Kasyx]

\o/

Hazzah!

 

[HavocXphere]

Saw that too. Great news.

Also one my wishlist: Drivers must be <20mb by law.

My Logitech driver is freaking 70meg. wtf do they put in there??? Hidden pr0n? The actual driver is maybe 100kb...and the other 69mb are what?

 

[Lino]

Its about frikken time, have to say Linux is starting to become an impressive operating system

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Saw that too. Great news.

Also one my wishlist: Drivers must be <20mb by law.

My Logitech driver is freaking 70meg. wtf do they put in there??? Hidden pr0n? The actual driver is maybe 100kb...and the other 69mb are what?

Impressive graphics to wow you while the thing is installed?

 

[ToSsMaStR]

Nice, linux > chuck

 

[.Froot.]

Anyone notice the difference between the Linux and Windows nvidia drivers? Lnx: ~10MB. M$..... 40-100MB. Huge difference for only OS-related programming differences in the same language...