On Saturday 25 August 2012, wbrana wrote: >On 8/24/12, Martin Nybo Andersen <tw...@tweek.dk> wrote: >> I know he's not giving any names, however he's specific enough: Apps >> which can't be recompiled. Ie. software for which you haven't got the >> source code or >> a working compiler. > >Software used by 99% users will have alternative software which have >source code available or have 64-bit version. > >> Try telling Torvalds he couldn't create Linux, or Stallman that he >> couldn't create GNU. > >Chromium 22 is much more complex than Linux 1.0 >linux-1.0.tar.bz2 - 20 contributors - size 1 MB >chromium-22.0.1229.14.tar.bz2 - size 200 MB > >> Quite the opposite. You should try it some day. The only thing I miss >> is VDPAU. But then again, I use another computer for watching movies. >> It has a Radeon card installed (using the open radeon driver -- not >> the flgrx). Full HD >> and sound via HDMI running flawlessly. As does the integrated Intel GPU >> on my >> eeepc 900 (the CPU seems to be the fastest chip on that netbook ... ;-) > >Open source drivers are black listed by Chromium because of instability >file software_rendering_list.json: >NVIDIA cards with nouveau drivers in Linux are crash-prone
What rock did you just crawl out from under? Stuff gets fixed, I've been using it since I installed Ubu10.04.4 LTS. Current uptime is half a day short of 3 weeks. >The Intel Mobile 945 Express family of chipsets is not compatible with >WebGL Intel mesa drivers are crash-prone >ATI/AMD cards with third-party drivers in Linux are crash-prone >Drivers are unreliable for Optimus on Linux Now that I can't argue with, given that what ATI/AMD has thrown over the fence is based on their own code, and I have yet to get their own code to run any ATI card I've ever had. >http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_ivy_gpushow&num= >10 Geforce 9800 GT with nouveau has worse performance than Ivy Bridge. >Radeon 6770 with open source drivers has far worse performance than Ivy >Bridge. There is no discrete Ivy Bridge graphics card. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! ... bacteriological warfare ... hard to believe we were once foolish enough to play around with that. -- McCoy, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
