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Linus Torvalds' Comments

What exactly does a "finger-giving-to-nvidia" speech imply? Is this really suitable for an encyclopedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SJM978 (talk • contribs) 14:17, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in agreement that such a description is un-encyclopedic. In fact, I wonder if the statement is justified at all - having seen the video, the comments might just as well have been about NVidia's unwillingness to provide proper driver support for their non-Android hardware. I'm moving the statement to here on the Talk page. See below.Josejuan05 (talk) 00:19, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Linus Torvalds, the Linux kernel maintainer, in his famous finger-giving-to-Nvidia speech, criticized the company as being "the single worst company we've had to deal with" because it provided no support for Optimus laptops.^[1]

References

^ "Linus Torvalds Calls NVIDIA The Worst Company Ever". Retrieved 2012-06-17.

Linux Support?

I noticed that the new proprietary drivers include a --optimus switch to support it on Linux, I cannot however find any info on this other than on the NVidia page ^[1], has nobody noticed this? I noticed this while installing the CUDA 5.0 package, there is the --optimus switch. Is Bumblebee still needed? 208.49.239.6 (talk) 09:54, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Shoul we mention nvidia-prime? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU0MDI Lbertolotti (talk) 14:21, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/310.40/README/optimus.html

[1] "Linus Torvalds Calls NVIDIA The Worst Company Ever". Retrieved 2012-06-17.

[2] ttp://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/310.40/README/optimus.html

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