Hi Evan,

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 22:55 -0600, Evan Hisey wrote:
> most people. But suddenly needing to upgrade the whole system will put
> people off about the move to 2.x

It's inevitable we are going to leave behind some people with the 2.x
architecture.  We've accepted that already.  The survey should hopefully
help us determine how many will be affected, and how badly.

On the other hand, it may not be as bad as you think.  If you have a
video chipset that does hardware accelerated GL, you'll be ok.  If you
don't, but you have a free PCI, AGP, or PCI-e slot, such a card can be
gotten for cheap ($40 USD or less) and there are fanless and/or low
profile options too.

If you have no free slot and your onboard video chipset cannot do
hardware accelerated GL, this is probably the worst case scenario.  You
almost certainly won't be able to run Freevo 2.  However, Freevo 2 is
not ready yet, and Freevo 1 I imagine will be maintained for some time
still while Freevo 2 lags on the feature set.  (Depends on what Duncan
wants to do.)  So you might well get another couple years out of the
unupgradable hardware yet.

Jason.


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