On Friday 06 May 2005 15:45, Ian McCulloch wrote: > So the choice is between a company that releases crap drivers with poor > support, or a company that releases high quality drivers, or sitting on the > sidelines watching the world go by in 2D.
No, you're only stuck with 2D for now if you use nVidia. Radeons up to 9200 have 3D acceleration that works fine. Neither company releases relevant drivers and only ATi releases specs enough for 3rd parties to provide the good support that they have. On Friday 06 May 2005 16:05, Sean Sullivan wrote: > Well, to each his own I guess... IMHO though, this type of attitude will > continue to hold Linux back from getting major vendor support which is > necessary if we want to be able to consistently run the latest and > greatist in both cutting edge hardware and software. Vendor support is meaningless if it is in the form of immoral software. > Some people probably don't care either way, but there are many of us that > do. And many people don't mind the Patriot Act either. Does that make it acceptable? -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ -- [email protected] mailing list
