non-free should just work

[calle]

would it be harmful to load the nonfree nvidia driver if an nvidia
card is detected?

from the user point of view i would like the choice of driver to be
based on how well it performs, rather than licensing.

it does not seem like that is how it's done now though.
think about it?



On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:30:29 +1000, Rob Weir <rweir at ertius.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:24:50PM -0400, Dave W said
> > Ditto.  I like Ubuntu but will be switching back to Libranet if Libranet 3.0
> > has udev and the nifty auto-mounting trick that ubuntu has.  That's the only
> > thing that really puts it ahead of Lib (for this user).  Libranet comes with
> > a great installer, NVidia's drivers and plenty of other non-free stuff,
> 
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto
> 
> > several window managers,
> 
> rob at blerg> apt-cache search window manager | wc -l
> 217
> 
> > java and flash installers, MS font installers, a
> 
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
> 
> > normal root account, et cetera.
> 
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo
> 
> No doubt you know all this, though.
> 
> -rob
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