On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:42:58PM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote: > X on GL won't ship anywhere for at least a year. It will probably be two years > before it is in wide spread use. You can get good 3D cards for $35 now, in two > years due to Longhorn all systems will be shipping with them.
So? My sister still uses a P120, and is happy with it. Why should she be forced to upgrade? > I still own an 8086 based machine with no protected mode, does that mean that > Linux should not support protect mode? You can;t look backwards at hardware > support, if you do you will never add any new features. I am not suggesting *removing* support, rather *adding* support. Should we get rid of support for sub-AthlonXP-class while we're at it? No-one uses those old pieces of crap. > There are plans for supporting non-accelerated cards, but you can't expect them > to perform like a decent 3D one. No amount of software is going to make my 8086 > play a reasonable game of Quake. Yeah, but windowing systems shouldn't have the same system requirements as Quake. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> freedesktop.org: powering your desktop http://www.freedesktop.org
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