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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action

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Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action

www.phoronix.com

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    What’s DRM in this context? Surely linux kernel doesn’t do digital rights management?

    • bishop
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      44•1 year ago

      Direct Rendering Manager

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      79•1 year ago

      Direct Rendering Manager. Part of Linux kernel to communicate with GPUs.

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      Actually there is DRM in the kernel thanks to the HDMI blobs.

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        Fuck HDMI. The committee makes doing custom hardware near impossible unless you’re a mega corp

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          It was made by Hollywood for Hollywood.

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        1•1 year ago

        How do they handle the naming confusion?

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      30•1 year ago

      DRM came before DRM

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        5•1 year ago

        Doesn’t matter; I still get triggered by it every time anyway.

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      deleted by creator

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      It ought to be mandatory to write this out whenever talking about Linux. I’ve seen more than one person bash Linux in a public forum “because it has digital rights management built into the kernel” after they’ve misinterpreted some news headline.

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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