Le mar 16/07/2002 � 19:52, Andrew P. Lentvorski a �crit : > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jos� Fonseca wrote: > > > My interest in the XFree86 development is infact rather specific: the > > RandR extension will be a crucial brick for a proper 3D support on lower > > end cards such as Mach64 which have little onboard memory. > > My question to you is: why do you want to spend your time on this when you > can buy a *much* higher end card than a Mach for <$40 US? Your time is > worth than that, even if you are a student. > > One of the primary time-wasters in open-source is that developers spend a > lot of time on support for hardware which is obsolete. When obsolete > hardware was much cheaper than brand new hardware, this support for was > important. Now, however, that difference is pretty minimal. Buy a new > card and save yourself lots of pain.
If he does help to implement RandR into XFree, his time won't be wasted. Moreover, that's what I like with opensource: I can find top-class OS & drivers for old hardware, and use these old boxes as firewall, car mp3 player, etc.. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
