nvidia vs kmod-nvidia

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/10/06, spmirowski <spmirowski at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I suppose you could argue that it's to much work for nvidia to support
> > one of the largest Linux distros. However, they seem to handle
> > supporting Windows okay, but then again, there's a much larger market
> > share and I'm sure there's a greater financial incentive.
> >
> > It would be nice to see nVidia support FC by incorporating livna, but
> > then again, I also understand it's easier for them from many many
> > perspectives to make the drivers available and let the distro fend for
> > itself.
> >
> >
> It would be silly to expect a nVidia to support a few distros
> specifically with
> packages.  To support FC, they would need to build at least two version
> (5 and 6)
> then 586, or 686 kernels, plus SMP, etc.  Now add a couple more popular
> distros
> and you have what 10 - 20 builds per driver version?  What about the
> near most
> popular distros.  They will whine and cry foul.

You do know that it is all automated (mostly) right?

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