Common problems with Ubuntu

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:59:37PM +0300, michf at post.tau.ac.il wrote:

> I do still have quite a few qualms with it though on other regards. I'm deep
> into GPU computing at the moment (Cuda) and what Windows vista and 7 did to the
> graphics driver model is a classic example of Microsoft's approach for world
> domination. The operating system is actually managing a virtual memory on the
> graphics card behind the graphics driver back.
> 
> although designed to assure the DWM can always have enough memory, this causes
> a bunch of unexpected and uncontrolled performance and feature issues.

What does that mean? Latest Linux version also manage the card's virtual
memory.

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