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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by binarycrusader on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:41PM (#4133438)
Kernel upgrades on machines with nVidia GPUs and binary drivers are a pain because the Linux kernel developers have chosen to not provide a stable binary interface, and in some cases, have deliberately broken interfaces by changing them to "GPL-only".

Meanwhile, Windows, Solaris, and FreeBSD users generally have no problems between kernel updates.

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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by blinkingled on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:49PM (#4133468)
Oh, not that binary API stability flamewar again :) It is what it is - Nvidia doesn't play well with it is the problem - others do it well.
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