>Yes, what you say is all true: we can take it up with vendors for >driver support or purchase NVidi a graphics cards. But the far more >realistic alternative is just switch to Linux and not deal with it. >From the point of view of a desktop, it's the best of all possible >worlds: it's like Unix and o ne enjoys tons of software, open source or >otherwise, your hardware will generally work, and there' s a huge user >base. It's called the network effect:
How does switching to Linux help here? - Does any of the Linux installations come with a pre-installed 3D accelerated graphics? - What happened again if you installed such a driver and tried to upgrade X/the kernel/etc? At least Solaris provides a working, accelerated nVidia driver out of the box, regardless of upgrades to the OS (stable kernel interfaces) or X (no stable interfaces, requires a working relationship with the vendor) I'm not sure that ATI will deliver on better open source drivers. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
