[CS-FSLUG] Mandrake 2005LE and NVidia drivers

[Dommy E. Hamid]

Nathan T. wrote:
> On 8/4/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Thursday 04 August 2005 1:24 am, Nathan T. wrote:
>>
>>>Is it possible that Mandrake is blocking the use of nvidia drivers
>>>that aren't released by them, even when the nvidia packages are
>>>compiled by hand? It is plausible since one of the selling points of a
>>>boxed set is the inclusion of proprietary drivers like the nvidia and
>>>ati ones as RPMs.
>>
>>Ah.......SUSE nor anyone else includes the drivers, as far as I know. SUSE
>>includes a GNU driver but it doesn't support 3D. You have to go out on the
>>Net. as an update and get the driver from nVidia, which Yast will do.
>>
>>Fred
> 
> 
> http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?products_id=160&osCsid=157dc4a67723bfeb9a16117e2b53d823
> "It includes commercial software (Flash/Java plugins, JDK, etc.) and
> non-free drivers (Nvidia and ATI video cards) with an auto
> installation system."
> 
> I also noticed this while I was there:
> "The Desktop/LX 1.4 Gold Edition bundle is the very last version of
> Desktop/LX that will ever be sold!"
> http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?products_id=224&osCsid=ff19f4fbd358b34a1a6b93c220e135ce
> 
> That's sad, I remember talking to the Lycoris people all the time on
> IRC, and now that it's been absorbed by Mandriva I'm concerned that a
> good distribution may have been lost for nothing (Mandriva doesn't
> have a good track record with me).
> 
Hopefully not. However Mandriva should use what technology found in the 
Lycoris for the Discovery edition of Mandriva. One CD, easy to use 
desktop, complete applications for office and multimedia, and cheap 
price would be a killer combo.

Dommy
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