Nouveau Nvidia driver

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Project Summary

nouveau is an X.Org Foundation and Freedesktop.org project which was initially based on the obfuscated 2D-only free and open source "nv" driver, aiming to develop free software drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards, by reverse engineering NVIDIA's current proprietary drivers for Linux.

In a Nutshell, Nouveau Nvidia driver...

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has had 4,001 commits made by 89 contributors
representing 58,840 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by one developer
with decreasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 15 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2003
ending with its most recent commit 7 months ago

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