On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Since there are always swings around about "best linux support" which
> I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia,
> AMD or maybe Intel? Any specific card families/models?
* Intel would be best:
1. Full OSS drivers on any recent distro.
2. Good integration with the rest of x.org [xrandr etc.])
But.... They don't sell cards, only on-board chipsets.
* My second choice today would be ATI cards:
1. As someone else mentioned older (e.g: r300) chipsets have
pretty good support in the FOSS driver (including
simple 3D, compiz etc.)
2. AMD/ATI released hardware specs last year and started
cooperating with FOSS community, which is significant for
the newer cards (http://www.x.org/docs/AMD)
3. Because of (2.), there is better support for modern cards
on the pipe. Specifically, David Airlie (one of X.org developers
from Red Hat) already announced not long ago about major
improvements in r500/r600 chipsets. This is bleeding edge
source in his git repository, but it is reasonable to expect
this code to land within 6-12 months in fast paced distros
(Debian testing, Fedora, etc.)
* nVidia have:
1. The best proprietary Linux support ;-)
2. The worst FOSS support.
3. Someone else on this thread already detailed some
of the problems it brings (updates, cards with quick
End-Of-Life, etc.)
* The only worse alternatives than nVidia are all the
VIA, SIS and their unloved, binary, non-supported, blobs.
Bye,
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