> Give me a while and I'll let you know. I'm trying to get my hands on a 166
> Alpha UDB system. Want to see if it does any better then my Cyrix PR166+
> system.
You might want to take a look at the new dec alpha chipset, they are in
the 500+ MHZ range, however they developed it in a way that is quite
cheap.
You might just be able to find a decent 500mhz one for less than $3k in
the near future, if not already.
> Netscape has done development on Linux. M$ even has FreeBSD and Linux
> running a few of the servers, and I'm pretty sure (if you can beleive a
> friend of mine that works for M$ tech support) that Linux is being used to
> develop the Unix IE port. Also, there are at least 100 other top named
> companies using Linux for Unix application development or servers (not just
> web or mail servers, but intranet).
I don't know if they plan on changing, but so far, the unix ie port is
only available for solaris... I have no idea if they will bother porting
it to other unices.
>
> I know that Xi Graphics and Metro are working on getting their GLs to have
> hardware acceleration under Linux. I don't know how many cards offer GL
> acceleration, though. Should contact both companies and see.
I recently acquired a new Permedia 2 based Fire Gl Pro 1000. It supports
GL acceleration. It is amazingly fast compared to the Millenium I had
before. I even tried putting back in the Millenium afterwards, it was
unbareable. It's amazing how fast you adjust to a new speed. ;)
It has one flaw though, (not really but...) since its a brand new piece
of hardware, it is unfortunately not supported by any X servers, so until
some hacker gets ahold of one, I'm stuck in console mode.
> Hell, what gets me most is that WinNT has LESS hardware support then Linux!
> Isn't that a kick in the pants?
Unfortunately the stuff that is used for graphics work, tends to be only
supported under nt/95 :(
