official statement on future OS support?

[dinkel]

I'm wondering if there is an official statment from nvidia what operation system they will support in the future?

personally I'm running an OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org) server for quite some time and loving the ease of use and stability.

because of the lack of a nvidia driver for BSD-systems (what about Darwin btw?) I did not change my desktop OS from XP (games) and Linux to BSD :-(


dinkel

[Matthyahuw]

As far as BSD is concerned, you'll be better off running to the mod community...
I can't speak for them, but I'm pretty sure they are not going to give that OS any support...

[dinkel]

Originally posted by Matthyahuw
As far as BSD is concerned, you'll be better off running to the mod community...

:confused: mod community?

[Matthyahuw]

the "aftermarket"

[jon787]

I really want a driver for FreeBSD :(

[sebazve]

just go to the linux drivers section and download the sources and compile your own drivers. I mean FreeBSD use the linux kernel no???...

just get the tar ones since i think freeBSD doesnt support RPMs

[volt]

get on irc.freenode.net
you will get help there, i'm pretty sure :)
(openprojects)

[dinkel]

Originally posted by sebazve
just go to the linux drivers section and download the sources and compile your own drivers. I mean FreeBSD use the linux kernel no???...

just get the tar ones since i think freeBSD doesnt support RPMs

I just wanted to say that this could not work for 2 reasons, because BSD-kernels are not linux-like kernels and also the tarballs do not contain source-code, but binary stuff.

now I realized that my comment would be wrong, because in the kernel module of the driver there is a little source code, that can (even has to be) compiled to install it in the kernel.

I definitely have to have a look at this source and try to find out what it does...