hi; On 21 November 2012 19:53, Raphaël Jacquot <[email protected]> wrote:
> The decision is all nice and well. however this will force people that don't > have the latest and greatest accelerated hardware to switch to something else. > most PCs that are more that 2 years old are probably out of the game. this is incorrect. hardware acceleration is available, using free software drivers, on hardware that is 5 years old (945-class hardware, release by Intel in 2005/2006). writing modern software for old and underpowered hardware is not really an option. if you want to use really old hardware there are better projects that can benefit from contributions. > now the REAL question is : > Is the Gnome community NO BETTER than Microsoft at forcing Hardware Upgrades ? let's not resort to out of place hyperboles, please. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
