22 May
2003
22 May
'03
10:17 a.m.
Just had to reply to this. Where I work we use NVIDIA graphics cards
exclusively. Why - because they are the only graphics card manufacturer
with an accelerated 3D driver for Linux. Yes, it's closed but we have
no choice since we are working with software that requires accelerated
3D drivers (IVS' Fledermaus). Graphics card manufacturing is a very
competitive industry so I can understand their position on this. OTOH,
I agree completely about the motherboard.
Jan
On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 06:17, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
Patrick Shirkey hat gesagt: // Patrick Shirkey wrote:
If not then AMD has a better rep in Linux land
than Intel.
Why that? Actually before buying a laptop with a Celeron this year, I
never bought something from Intel, but when I see the alliance that
AMD is going to with Nvidia, who are IMO the worst thing that has
happened to Linux ("closed source drivers kill opensource software"),
then I'm not sure, if I will buy AMD again. I for sure will not buy an
Nvidia mainboard, if specs for the kernel developers are not
available.
ciao
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