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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by lmm on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:09PM (#24750532)
It was a solvable problem though, right? A bunch of different OpenSolaris distributions exist now.
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:08AM (#24751300)
I dunno if I'd call it "solved" or not... Illumos reduced the binary blobs, but to this day you have to download a bundle of them when you build it. The whole issue also added significant friction early on, which I personally think stunted the project's growth, but I'm not sure that really knowable.

But yes, it did eventually get mitigated.

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