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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

We've been very lucky to have several developers interested in adding
code to solve the problem. Sometimes people start by forking from
existing code, working a bit on it, then publishing the fork for
comments. Sometimes people like to give their fork their own name, I
think that's fine and we shouldn't worry to much about it.

As far as I can see, everybody talks to each other and people is keen
on contributing, which is the most important factor.

Bumblebee/stable seems to be the easiest to install and use. There
wasn't an integrated bumblebee with power management solution a while
ago, and ironhide filled that gap. Now the hope is on
bumblebeev3.0/bbswitch to become easy to install, stable and
feature-full.

My 2c

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Nuno Ferreira <nuno.f.ferreira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/03/2012 01:48 PM, Albert Vilella wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is bbswitch and bumblebeed ready for testing and reporting back to the list?
>>
>> Given bbswitch would put the bumblebee/bbswitch combo basically on par
>> with ironhide, I would update the
>> http://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux info for testers...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
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>
> The question that comes to mind, really, is why do both projects exist
> at the same time? Such a specific feature-set, so recent and so filled
> with (HW/ACPI) documentation gaps.
>
> Isn't this a good example where dispersing resources is really bad?
>
> On a personal note, I currently use IronHide on Oneiric and previously
> used Bumblebee on Natty, which one should I be using? LENOVO T520
> (4243RT8) with Nvidia NVS4200M + i915.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nuno