> > Never found a use for "3D acceleration" myself. Seems to be mostly > > for games and, well, games. > > > > There are other uses. Like the silly 3D accelerated window managers (as > a cwm user it's obvious I see no need for that). There's also other > uses. For example last year for my final year university project I wrote > a visualisation app. using vtk[1], I wrote it on OpenBSD. Of course I'd > have liked acceleration then, it would have run faster (software GL > isn't very fast). >
I'm a mathematician. Concerns of logical simplicity and documentation led me to run OpenBSD on the desktop, but sometimes I need to run 3D visualization software, too. Unfortunately, it's so slow on OpenBSD that it's only borderline usable.
