On 14/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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?
Yes, some of them do (commercial ones), and the nVidia license permits this.
- What happened again if you installed such a driver and tried to upgrade X/the kernel/etc?
It breaks, of course.
I'm not sure that ATI will deliver on better open source drivers.
We can only hope, but my personal experience doesn't instill great confidence in that. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
