On 13-01-12 02:59 AM, [email protected] wrote: > If you look at buying a computer in the future avoid AMD's ATI > graphics and NVIDIA. AMD hasn't released sufficient data or source to > be free software friendly. You could almost say NVIDIA actively works > against free software. The have (in the past) explicitly stated they > would offer no help to the free driver development effort. > > Intel Graphics are golden right now. They've drastically improved in > recent years and gotten great reviews (not that people aren't still > pouting off how bad they are). Some games are actually tweaked for > Intel graphics on GNU/Linux now because the full source code is > available even. Some major development house is working on the Intel > drivers/games too.
Except for Poulsbo and Cedar View :( If someone has one of those chipsets it would be useful to document them on h-node.org. I almost kept a netbook based on the "Intel is golden" assumption, until I noticed pretty much useless graphics performance (for its intended usecase). They're technically not 100% Intel, but rather rebranded, and only had binary non-free drivers available at introduction. F. -- Fabián Rodríguez http://fsf.magicfab.ca
