On Nov 15, 2006, at 4:26 AM, ugo wrote:
> You're so right Brian, somebody has to jump first... I
wish I could
> if I wasn't in Europe.
> And that's also why I'm not confiant in Sony (plus the
rootkit
> story): they said the ps3 release would be all over the
world for
> the same day. Marketing rules...
> Whatever.
>
> You say that Terrasoft is not to blame, and that's true
for sure.
> No operating system developer can be blamed for not
making the work
> of industrials who are the one who should give drivers
for their
> products. If it was the case all Linux distributions
would be
> greatly blamed for many driver problems and that would
be more than
> unfair: completly absurd.
>
> Tell me if I'm wrong:
> Who took the decision of this hypervisor filter and why
?
> Sony ? they are just building RSX but it is an NVidia
product.
> NVidia ? for them that's certainly Sony trouble.
> I supose that if we try to find out who's behind this
to ask an
> help, we would lost a lot of time.
> The real trouble seems that NVidia driver's codes are
not opened,
> so it may be difficult for linux communities to work on
it by their
> own.
>
nVidia's Linux driver code has never been open, but has been
"free"
as in beer. I can certainly understand this even if I don't
like it.
Read the archives of the MythTV list for discussion of the
issue ad-
infinitum.
The open-source nVidia drivers are pretty dismal, but it's
amazing to
me they have done even as well as they have given the
proprietary
nature of the GPU. This is after many many years so I don't
think we
can expect much along those lines in the forseeable future.
nVidia is more than likely bound by some agreement with
Sony, as you
say, and while nVidia has been supportive of the Linux
community the
same can't be said for Sony. I'm frankly surprised they have
been as
helpful as they have been so far.
Sony wants to sell games to a mass market, and there are
those who
claim the PS3 is simply a trojan horse to get blu-ray
devices into
the public's hands.
Part of the allure of the PS3 running Linux for me is
getting a
really fast machine at price subsidized by Sony, who is
hoping to
make money selling me games, while I know that there is
absolutely
zero chance of them ever selling me any sort of game.
If we're ever to see accelerated video drivers they will be
closed-
source, like the present nVidia ones. The chances of us
getting them
increase with each machine running Linux though, and as I
said
somebody has to go out on the dance floor first.
I think I will purchase one, a lot can be done without fast
video,
and Terrasoft has a reputation for stable Linux
distributions.
It should be more fun than any game Sony will ever come up
with 
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