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- bedzinski waldemar robert likes this.
- José Daniel Guerrero Gálvez repeated this.
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Wait what?
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Check this out http://ur1.ca/8mcow
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Wh at? When?!
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Umm… they joined the foundation not opened their drivers. Unless I misunderstood the article?
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you can also install vrms (virtual rms) to find out(/keep watching) which of your installed packages are not free! ;)
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Thanks for the tip! ;)
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@mariolopez The nvidia driver is still proprietary
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Probably you're using the Nouveau drivers, unfortunately they're unofficial...
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@mikankun Really? I though it wasn't.
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@giako87 yeah, maybe I'm using those drivers.
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maybe that helps http://identi.ca/url/70334883 :)
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@bijan - You know VRMS is a joke right? It's incomplete and misleading, and unwise to rely on it for guidance.
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@xjself no i didn't know that. can you tell me more or why it is misleading?:) cause i think it looks in APT database or something like that
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@bijan 1. Claims to be a Virtual RMS but doesn't evaluate things the same way he would and
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@bijan 2. Doesn't identify all nonfree software on the computer, providing false/misleading sense of freedom.
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nvidia isn't helping in the opensource drivers side. nouveau driver is independent work and that's probably what you have installed.
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@jxself the second reason: if it's true, that would be a problem :( but again DFSG should be the reference. I'll check that.thanks again ;)
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@bijan If it purports to be a "Virtual RMS" it should follow "FSF free", not "Debian free", not "Fedora free" not someone else's "free."
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@bijan So that's part of why it's incomplete and misleading.
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@izem4mazigh you got it all wrong - #AMD is giving docs to write proper free drivers, #nvidia is doing nothing. AMD good, nvidia bad.
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@izem4mazigh not to mention #AMD has both cheaper and more powerfull GPUs (and less power hungry) than #nvidia
bedzinski waldemar robert likes this. -
@jxself i should mentioned this earlier:vrms follows DFSG in only some cases, the rest is FSF's. but i agree with you about the name...
bedzinski waldemar robert likes this. -
...maybe the minute they start following DFSG even in only rare cases, they should changed it's name to something rather than "rms" ;)
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@izem4mazigh I was talking about free drivers, which work ok (as far as talking about supported features) Binary blobs are a different thing
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