Bill Hacker wrote: > > Personally, I think the 'bigger picture' is not just NVidia > intransigence, but that the majority 'market' is indifferent to brand or > even *presence* of video. > > Leaving Apple out of the equation, the vast majority of all *BSD-flavor > boxes are servers or similar network / industrial 'black boxes', usually > housed out of sight in a separate room, if not on a separate *continent* > from the sysadmin, hence run physically 'headless'. > > If X-Free/X-Org is not in the default build (and I hope it never is), > then why should *any* VGA maker worry about the *BSD 'market' beyond > 80-column monochrome text capability? >
There is DesktopBSD, PC-BSD which are desktop-oriented systems. With DragonFly, one can make a cool desktop install CD with little effort. Maybe desktop users will require this, especially if XGL will be (or is) available for BSD systems.
