Linus Torvalds, during an interview with Finnish students hard out at Nvidia. The Linux-guru qualified Nvidia as “the most terrible company we have had’, while the company would benefit from Android.
Torvalds, who is known for his not always subtle statements, was given during an interview with students at the Finnish Aalto University to ask a question about Nvidia’s support for the Linux operating system. The questioner had a laptop with Nvidia’s Optimus technology, but I got it from the hardware manufacturer provides no support. Also, there would be no open-source drivers are available, that the power-saving Optimus technology, Linux can be used.
According to Torvalds, the Linux community has major problems with Nvidia in the area of hardware support. The Linux-guru, who recently won an award for his work received, qualified the company in no uncertain words and gestures even as ‘the most terrible company we have had’.
Torvalds stated that Nvidia, however, the exception to the rule. In addition, he mentions the attitude of Nvidia compared to Linux strange, because the company with its Tegra soc’s, the rapidly growing Android market controls, and it manages to earn. Torvalds is expected, however, that Nvidia, his behavior will soon change. “We can do nothing about it, it’s part of life.”
Although Nvidia proprietary drivers released for Linux, that also by many end-users as qualitatively better qualified than the closed-source Catalyst drivers from AMD, the company supports no projects to open-source drivers to develop. Thus, for example, should the Nouveau developers are forced to reverse engineer drivers by yourself develop, while AMD supports building drivers for its gpu’s and apu’s.