Comment Yeah... everyone's a critic (Score 1) 427
How much a better place this world would be?
Linux doesn't offer a way to keep using the same binaries between releases
Sure it does. That's all automated now and has been for awhile. Hardware vendors don't have to be concerned about it beyond making sure they properly install stuff to use current features of Linux.
If they don't, someone else can. That's one way that different distributions can distinguish themselves. They can take up the slack in terms of integration work. They fill the role that Apple is reputed to for it's platforms.
Even automated, they must build against releases. And if they don't and they don't release the code nobody else can do it. Everyone can take the binaries after that and package them furiously for all the distross, even with custom patches to the kernel (well... most patches),
Linux doesn't have a way to keep the binaries between linux releases.
So the drivers in the PPA are built by nVidia themselves and packaged for ubuntu by someone in the community. The issue here is with the quality of the work done before nVidia releases the binaries.
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