

NVIDIA was very much clear when asked about this, and clearly stated that NVIDIA is not going to support Linux to the point, Windows and Mac would get. The question was ‘ Optimus‘ feature of NVIDIA which lets the user to switch On/ Off Graphics Processing Unit ( GPU) to save power came late for Linux, as compared to other Operating Systems. The outburst of anger and frustration was the result of the question asked by a Linux user. It gets even more worse with the truth that NVIDIA is getting hot with every passing day in Android based mobile handset market which literally means that NVIDIA is not supporting Linux. Torvalds is depressed with the fact that NVIDIA is not supporting Linux, enough. During an interview, in Finland Linus Torvalds the man behind the exceptional idea of Linux and git source code management, gave his ‘ Middle Finger Salute‘ to NVIDIA in frustration with the support provided by the company for the Linux platform.
