On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:56 +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
> 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?
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> * 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.)
Sorry, but the 2nd and 3rd reasons to choose ATI exist in the future
rather than today.
If Amos Shapira can wait a year, then let him buy ATI a year from now.
But if he needs a solution today, then several of the above promises are
not relevant for him.
--- Omer
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