Well, have come you forget Radeon free driver, who supports impressive number of cards which work without a glitch with GNOME Shell, Unity and similar software :)
In fact, most of the machines than can run has a) Either Intel graphics - works perfectly b) ATI/AMD Radeon - most of them are supported by 'radeon' Xorg driver, newest ones require closed source drivers c) Nvidia cards d) and finally, all of these machines *can* run GNOME desktop trough software rendering using LLVM, altough is not as snappy as it can be, it's really works. So Richard, things *are* improving :) We are at much less mercy of closed drivers than before. Respectfully, Peter. 2012/11/15 Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> > Actually a non-negligible number of desktops as I understand running > gnome based desktops just don't have the graphics hardware > needed to run the shell > > Even worse, most of the machines that CAN run it > need nonfree software to run it -- which means that we > should urge people not to buy them. > > The only graphics accelerators I know of that don't require nonfree > software are some Intel ones, and the nVidia devices which Nouveau > supports. > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin St > Boston MA 02110 > USA > www.fsf.org www.gnu.org > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > -- mortigi tempo Pēteris Krišjānis
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