Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

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Monday 16 October 2006 21:08, by Sean :: #

Because the open source X drivers and open source kernels have *never* had a local root exploit, and if they did, they *certainly* never would have gone unnoticed for months or even years.</sarcasm>

Monday 16 October 2006 22:07, by thebluesgnr :: #

Sean, this bug was reported to nVidia 2 years ago, and the stable version is still affected.

Now, can you point me to a free software driver that has had a known and unfixed root exploit bug for over 2 years? Didn't think so.

Monday 16 October 2006 23:11, by Sad panda :: #

Unfortunately, I enjoy using my hardware to its fullest extent. OSS drivers can't compare.

Monday 16 October 2006 23:53, by Peter :: site :: #

In that case, Sad panda, you should express your opinion with hard money (which companies actually understand) and purchase only those things known to work well with F/OSS drivers.

As I understand it, work is underway to get X off the dangerous "run-as-root" thing (with safeguards like SELinux and Exec-Shield, etc.). Do you know offhand how far that support has come?

/me hugs his Radeon 9250 that runs beautiful eye-candy and most light games at their highest settings near-flawlessly.

Tuesday 17 October 2006 01:57, by gbil :: #

[quote]and most light games[/quote]

So why don't you start a campaign 'We don't want gamers in Linux cause we don't like binary drivers' ?

Who has the 'balls' to say that? Because that is the bottom line.

Tuesday 17 October 2006 02:47, by Hilerik :: #

I don't whant fuckin' closed source drivers in Debian!!!

Tuesday 17 October 2006 09:10, by Simon :: #

*sigh*
Don't like it? The don't use it and stop complaining on other people for making their choices!

Tuesday 17 October 2006 09:20, by Sad panda :: #

Don't get me wrong, if there was comparable hardware + OSS drivers, of course I would use it. But as it stands, it's pointless for me to downgrade my experience purposefully, even if it's for an inarguably good cause. It's called being American, we're assholes.

Wednesday 18 October 2006 01:20, by Happy Panda (well, mostly) :: #

"it's pointless for me to downgrade my experience purposefully... I'll just wait around to get 0wnz0r3d, cause my data and privacy aren't worth shit. Botnets deserve a leg up, yo".

Maybe you like to play video games more that the average bear. For me, it's not worth the hassle to run binary drivers on a machine I also use for work. Asshole.

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