On 05/10/2012 05:58 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:09:25PM PDT, bando?ers wrote:
So, while I agree that there's no great need for most people to use the
transitional, (between LTS), releases, but am left with a question.
Does this mean that those who don't have 3d graphics support will be forever
restricted to precise and back?
Again I don't see this as much of an issue for people now that LTS releases
will be supported for 5years, and of course hardware is aging as am I. I just
want to make sure I understand.
How old is the hardware you are currently using? Chances are that you indeed do
have graphics hardware that has 3D graphics support, and you haven't needed to
set it up, i.e you have an NVIDIA card that is not capable of rendering 3D
graphics without installing the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. There are some edge
cases for specific hardware released in the last 10 years like a handfull of
netbooks, but modern Linux desktop shells are doing their best to support 3D
graphics hardware that is 8-9 years old. See my recent email about desktop
shells and their graphical requirements for more information.
If you are still using hardware that is more than 9 years old, then yes you
will need to upgrade, unless you switch to XFCE or LXDE, as chances are your
CPu won't be fast enough to render any desktop at a sufficient speed to be
usable.
Luke
Hi all,
I strongly believe that Unity 2D should have existed for much longer.
I guess people are aware that tablets would need such a thing that takes
less memory.
In any case, if accessibility is broken in Unity 3D? then it is Ubuntu's
responsibility to fix it up.
For Unity 2D I can only say one thing.
Some one aught to have a ppa for Unity 2D and since Unity is licensed
under gpl, a community driven team can surely maintain it.
Talking about 3D support, my Thinkpad was taken in 2007 and I am not
sure if it has 3D card.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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