On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Fred Heitkamp wrote: >> For consumer desktop that's true. There is one potential business >> case in the professional desktop market. SGI's, HP's and Sun's old >> workstation customers have been moving over to Linux. All the film >> studios are using Linux, for instance. The volume is small but the >> margins on the professional cards is high so there is a chance that >> it might actually make money some day. If it weren't for this >> potential in the professional market, NVIDIA probably wouldn't have >> any binary Linux drivers. The real target of those drivers is the >> NVIDIA Quadro line not the GeForce line. > >If the server market is the biggest (and for Linux it is) then >only 2D support if that is required. I'd bet even the big >film studios don't use Linux to view the final rendering. They >probably use a Mac (Apple OS of some kind) or a PC running >Windows.
Search google for Dreamworks SKG stories involving Linux. You'll be surprised. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
