Linus Torvalds: NVIDIA is the single worst company we've ever dealt with

Click here and disable ads!

source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/18/linus-torvalds-nvidia-linux/

The Tuxfather has spoken (who cares)

Well, at least their official Linux drivers work.

I don't care, but it's like he's getting a bit retarded over the years. At least he has still some grip on reality, unlike Stallman.

NVIDIA has been considered as the most "linux friendly" company. After all, they did a lot of shit to get their drivers working on a broken operating system, so lunix could have access to the same hardware features as Windows 95. What involved building workarounds to get over that all retarded shit from the system clusterfuck core components.

A short, but interesting article concerning the grimdark history of linux graphics.
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/nitty-gritty-shit-on-open-source.html

I hope Wayland wll bring some advancements there, but for now X11 is working well enough, I guess.

As for Thorvalds raging, might have to do with NVidia's refusal to go open source or help with the development of open source drivers.

And the sound of thousands of neckbeards jizzing over themselves was heard at that time. Revitalized by this morsel their overlord threw at them they once again spread to whine everywhere about how games don't work on Linux and how everything should be open source because.

http://maketecheasier.com/10-more-funny-andor-useless-linux-commands/2012/05/10

$ fortune
If you are not for yourself, who will be for you?
If you are for yourself, then what are you?
If not now, when?
$ fortune
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and
fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are
drifting side by side to our common doom.
-- Clarence Darrow
$ fortune
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being
that a belch is more satisfying.
-- Ingmar Bergman
$ fortune
Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't like
solitary confinement.
$ fortune
He had that rare weird electricity about him -- that extremely wild and heavy
presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever
behaving "normally."
-- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing '72"
$ fortune
It might be worth reflecting that this group was originally created
back in September of 1987 and has exchanged over 1200 messages. The
original announcement for the group called for an all inclusive
discussion ranging from the writings of Gibson and Vinge and movies
like Bladerunner to real world things like Brands' description of the
work being done at the MIT Media Lab. It was meant as a haven for
people with vision of this scope. If you want to create a haven for
people with narrower visions, feel free. But I feel sad for anyone
who thinks that alt.cyberpunk is such a monstrous group that it is in
dire need of being subdivided. Heaven help them if they ever start
reading comp.arch or rec.arts.sf-lovers.
-- Bob Webber
$ fortune
System going down at 1:45 this afternoon for disk crashing.
$ fortune
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they
also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
-- Carl Sagan
$ fortune
Writers who use a computer swear to its liberating power in tones that bear
witness to the apocalyptic power of a new divinity. Their conviction results
from something deeper than mere gratitude for the computer's conveniences.
Every new medium of writing brings about new intensities of religious belief
and new schisms among believers. In the 16th century the printed book helped
make possible the split between Catholics and Protestants. In the 20th
century this history of tragedy and triumph is repeating itself as a farce.
Those who worship the Apple computer and those who put their faith in the IBM
PC are equally convinced that the other camp is damned or deluded. Each cult
holds in contempt the rituals and the laws of the other. Each thinks that it
is itself the one hope for salvation.
-- Edward Mendelson, "The New Republic", February 22, 1988

If hates NVIDIA this much I wonder what he has to say about ATI/AMD.

Nothing, amd supports the open source driver by laying out public specifications and being open to questions.

I've been out of the loop waay to long, tempted to do a partition now that I know my 6870 is Linux friendly.

It's one guy from amd working on them. Or did you mean they don't work for you? I have a ancient mobility 4570 and admittedly use the closed source driver for their superior power saving, but have used the open source drivers before and will again (since amd already said "fuck you" to this old chip) - by the way; that's the best thing about maintained open source drivers: you can just not upgrade the hardware if you don't need to after the software moves on.

It's the worst company considering no other works with that prick lol

Linux in a nutshell.

I forgive you for liking that shit-flinging of a movie/play.

And now Nvidia will never work with him. What a butthurt faggot.

Why anybody would want to work with Torvalds? He has little or no influence over design & implementation, he's just one of the drones. Except he's kind of celebrite in this fap- circle. If a company wanted to "work with linux development staff", then... well, now you see why the system has 1% on desktops.

Considering nVidia is siding with the OnLive and cloud always online DRM money-grubbing scheme, I have to share the same opinion of Linus on it but for different reasons.

That is bullshit.
The only reason nvidia started getting working drivers on linux was because of cuda.
That was why they didn't care shit about optimus on linux. It was a bitch to get it working on a friend's laptop.

how's your OS development going drog?

btw, sup?

yeah... you're right, it's not as if he knows the kernel inside out or has any control over it... yeah...

Why are you so butthurt about this, kaizoku?

Linuxfags gonna linuxfag.

mac: ME3
win: DA2
linux: AoD

linux is very easy to use compared to a few years ago, slow but steady improvement.

I don't know... you still seem to be quite butthurt kaizoku. Why are you so butthurt about a stupid OS?

Linux is emotionally engaging