El lun, 30-04-2007 a las 11:44 +0300, Oron Peled escribió:
> > - In two years the vendor would be several hardware generations > ahead. Would they still support the driver for your (than old) > hardware? If not, how would you upgrade your system to the > next (or next-next) version? At the present, Nvidia has the nvidia-glx-legacy driver for cards up to 10 years ago. In the future, if they will not release newer drives, you will still can use the current ones or the¨ nv¨ instead. For ATI the situation is not different. > - Many times it further limit your other hardware choices. E.g: > You want to move a graphics card from 32bit system to 64bit system. > Or from Intel to PPC. Does the vendor provides drivers for all > your needs? That is not the issue for on board cards. > > - And it also limits your software choices. E.g: you need to use > Ubuntu (it's not a bad choice, it's just an example of a limitation). These proprietary drivers are usually released as binaries and packaged by the maintainers of the different distros. > To take this to a bigger context, that's exactly like Firefox helps > you install Flash plugin automatically. It's good to have this wizard > to ease the pain, but it involves the same problems: > > - Would the vendor (Macromedia, now Adobe) release the versions > you need (Only lately we got Flash-9). > > - Would it limit my hardware choices? (search the archives for zillion > questions regarding 64bits). They will do while Linux will be more and more accepted by the people. And people currently do. -- Julian Daich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
