{"id":12411,"date":"2012-06-19T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T22:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2012-06-19T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T22:09:25","slug":"nvidia-support-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/nvidia-support-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia support for Linux UPDATED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linux inventer Linus Torvalds gave a talk recently at Aalto University in Finland.  It is a very interesting talk that anyone involved in Open Source technology or computer software development would enjoy.  During the talk, the issue of support for Linux from hardware manufacturers came up, and Linus had a comment for Nvidia, which it seems is not only non-supportive but maybe even anti-OpenSource.  Linus&#8217;s comment is below the fold becuase it is not work safe:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2012\/06\/v40g6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2012\/06\/v40g6.gif?resize=240%2C240\" alt=\"\" title=\"v40g6\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12412\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your browser does not support moving GIF&#8217;s then you may want to go to the source, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/6\/17\/3092829\/linus-torvalds-fuck-you-nvidia\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Nvidia has responded.  They say everything is fine.  See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=news_item&#038;px=MTEyMjk\">NVIDIA PR Responds To Torvalds&#8217; Harsh Words<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux inventer Linus Torvalds gave a talk recently at Aalto University in Finland. It is a very interesting talk that anyone involved in Open Source technology or computer software development would enjoy. During the talk, the issue of support for Linux from hardware manufacturers came up, and Linus had a comment for Nvidia, which it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/nvidia-support-for-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nvidia support for Linux UPDATED!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3eb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}