Nvidia Offers Linux an Olive Branch With Open-Source Drivers

[Smooth Operator]

Nvidia finally writes documentation that isn't shit you mean?
That's about the only thing they are doing, and so far what they handed out was still very limited, maybe Nvidia will offer something of value down the line now that Gabe is kicking down the doors but these guys are working very hard on carving out a very closed proprietary PC market of their very own.

That is why they got that finger in the first place.

 

[Andrew_C]

NVidia's documentation is shit, but their closed source drivers are pretty good. AMD (and ATI before them) only release documentation because they couldn't be bothered to release decent Linux (and BSD) drivers. And let's not forget that NVidia were among the first hardware manufacturers to actively support Linux, despite Torvalds & Co making things as difficult as possible by not having a stable kernel API.