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NVidia Launches Linux Drivers
News NVidia, the leading graphics chip maker, has released a new set of hardware drivers for the GNU/Linux operating system, including a number of improvements to speed and compatibility. Until last year, Linux users could look forward to hours of...
[September 6, 2001, 13:22]
Nvidia Updates Linux Drivers
News Nvidia on Wednesday released an updated version of its Unified Driver file, which includes drivers for hundreds of Nvidia products. Drivers are software that tells an operating system how to interact with PC hardware such as graphics chips and...
[December 11, 2002, 16:33]
Linux Kernel Infrastructure For User-Level Device Drivers
White Papers Linux 2.5.x has good support now for user-mode device drivers - XFree being the biggest and most obvious - but also there is support for user-mode input devices and for devices that hang off the parallel port.
[April 19, 2007, 0:00]
Hit Nail On Head
Talkback It is completely the Drivers & applications Though Linux has most apps Windows has but in some form or other the one thing its lacking is mainstream PC Games which is due to lack of decent drivers. Its also a catch 22 as the hardware vendors will...
[January 31, 2008, 8:39]
Nvidia Tool Enables Linux Auto-update
News Nvidia's new Linux Update tools lets PC users running various versions of the open-source Linux operating system update their video drivers -- software files that govern how PC hardware interacts with software -- with just a few clicks, said...
[March 31, 2003, 14:35]
Device Support 'key' To Desktop Linux
News Making drivers available promptly and automatically would help open source users, according to attendees at a panel on the Linux desktop at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston. It is not just down to the open source community to write drivers...
[April 5, 2006, 12:45]
Red Hat Recommends Windows For Consumers
Talkback However, since our camera and printer do not have drivers in linux, it's somewhat cumbersome. Window's main advantage still falls in the 3 catagories.drivers software support ease of use. I run linux at home on one of my machines.my wife uses it...
[November 5, 2003, 18:21]
Dell, HP, Lenovo Back Linux With Driver Promise
News Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for Linux. Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware...
[May 2, 2008, 8:18]
Microsoft Wins Final FAT Battle
Talkback There are FAT drivers in the Linux kernel, so that you can read hard disk partitions that are formatted in FAT. When those FAT drivers are removed from the Linux kernel, nothing is wrong (except that you won't be able to read FAT partitions anymore).
[January 12, 2006, 13:54]
Linux: New Graphics, Old Problem
News And although the Linux kernel is open source, drivers from dominant graphics chipmakers Nvidia and ATI Technologies are not. The Free Software Foundation, which wrote the GPL that governs Linux, says that the licence prohibits proprietary drivers.
[April 19, 2006, 11:50]
KDE Getting Ready To Go Native On Windows
Talkback Linux needs more, better drivers. Troubleshooting the drivers just doesn't happen, it's too frustrating for the linux first-timer, usually an experienced Windows tech, who then just goes back to the old-and-confortable setting - reinstall windows.
[February 9, 2005, 15:36]
Chip Makers Release Driver Source Code
News Taiwanese chip makers VIA Technologies and XGI Technology released the source code of various drivers this week in an attempt to improve Linux support for their products. This family of drivers is likely to be of particular interest to Linux...
[April 14, 2005, 15:00]
How To Talk To Microsoft About Linux
Talkback Printing in Linux is difficult because only a few printer companies have released Linux drivers. The rest of the drivers have to be reverse engeneered. He talks about ssh yet he doesn't know about Linux device handling?
[June 16, 2004, 19:29]
Suse Linux Gives Proprietary Modules The Boot
News In a change of heart, Novell has ceased distributing proprietary software modules such as 3D video drivers that plug into the Linux kernel. One Linux version, Linspire's Freespire, features one-click access to proprietary drivers as a selling point.
[August 1, 2006, 16:15]
Windows Vista Beta 1: Screenshot Gallery
Talkback Linux run's at 100% and yes the drivers for linux is easier than Xp Pro 64 drivers and less troublesome. If Micro@@ does not get their act together linux will surpass it. Boring Boring Boring. Universal boot cd starts up and show that my Pc can run...
[May 26, 2006, 8:28]
Novell Updates Suse Virtualisation
News The Suse Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack, announced on Monday, is a bundle of drivers for network, bus and block devices, allowing various versions of Windows and Linux to run at near-native performance as virtual machines in a Xen...
[June 19, 2007, 16:00]
It's Always Hardware
Talkback Where linux has some advantage of having open drivers and some vendor support. If vendors agreed on common specification where hardware stores its own driving specs (probably in XML), the OS or any software read the spec and compile or dynamically...
[May 10, 2007, 14:26]
Simplifying Linux Management With Dynamic Kernel Module Support
White Papers At times, administrators may need newer drivers than the ones found in the Linux operating system kernel. Dynamic Kernel Module Support, a software project created by the Dell Linux Engineering team, efficiently decouples driver releases from...
[May 7, 2005, 0:00]
Torvalds Releases Linux 2.6.25
News The kernel, which was released last Wednesday, approximately 10 weeks after its predecessor, includes broader Wi-Fi hardware support and the integration of more Wi-Fi drivers, according to Linux developers.
[April 21, 2008, 17:16]
NVidia Beefs Up Linux Support
News Graphics chipmaker nVidia has released new drivers for its video cards used in computers running the Linux operating system, the company said Friday. The new drivers support the OpenGL graphics technology and nVidia's extensions.
[December 3, 2001, 10:55]
