Hi, Andrew, If what you say is correct about Nvidia only allowing signed code in future (and I have no doubt that you are correct) I, for one will break the habit of a long time, and cease buying NVIDIA cards.
I had looked at their Shield as a tablet, but now... Terence On 10 June 2015 at 21:23, Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 11/06/2015 4:02 AM, Dan wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your answers. I can not use intel because the > > provider of our company only proposes AMD or NVIDIA for the > > workstations. > > > > I do not need a very fancy graphic card, I need something that > > works. I will proabably buy AMD as it seems to work well with the > > open source drivers. > > Intel is built-in to the modern CPUs, that's part of the beauty of it; > including plenty of good bang for your buck and lower energy options > than the "super" graphic cards that most people don't really need > unless they are doing extreme gaming or other very serious grunt work > with the GPU. > > Also, as I understand it, Nvidia will be requiring ALL code running on > it's newer hardware to be signed code -- therefore no free or open > source versions will work; you can of course opt for older hardware to > hopefully not get caught up with this change. > > Cheers > A. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlV4nLcACgkQqBZry7fv4vtpcQEA3w6REXmMLkOX/AhSUY9xkW9a > 2ZjT/E5ucnKcG7iRMAcA/Ajn2a3scgWr7i5Otxaid9HZ94b19Z2GMzCq08ihQ5t3 > =VAgr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55789cb8.5070...@affinityvision.com.au > >
