In all reality... I give AMD and Nvidia both -1 each since they have succumbed mainly to the popularist userbase on the desktop and linux support is fairly sparse.
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/NVIDIA-Drops-Xf86-video-nv-Support-No-Open-Source-for-New-Cards But it's true that the openness of the API on Nvidia allows for decent enough open source side drivers to be used for Nvidia cards such as Nouveau: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Nouveau-Becomes-NVIDIA-s-New-Standard-Driver The area where Linux is excelling is the mobile area since all the Android based phones have internal OpenGL chips, like playing Quake on my Vibrant =D -DK On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: > I am going to have to give a -1 to both of you, so -2 ::grin::. I am > surprised people are forgetting the pain and suffering ATI caused. I > hate preAMD ATI hardware. The hardware will be the same, that is > true, but that is neither here nor there. Once AMD bought ATI things > began to change, but before AMD's purchase of ATI, ATI was an > antiLinux institution that was on a faulty Linux driver bonanza. In > those (old) days (I guess they are old now), buying ATI hardware most > certainly meant that Linux support would be sketchy at best, except > for Dante, and would almost always require a variety of crap > workarounds. > > AMD is great and I thank them for bringing death to the ATI name. > > Chris... > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Charles N Wyble > <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 Dante. + 1. > > > > It will still be the same cards. Though AMD is doing a good job at > getting > > more and more drivers modernized and integrated into the kernel. > > > > I happen to use both AMD and Nvidia cards. However I don't use them for > > display but for heavy computation. So I don't care about 3d graphics. > (Most > > graphics on these boxes is an 80x20 terminal screen) > > > > On 08/30/2010 01:44 PM, Dante Lanznaster wrote: > >> > >> Ok I'll bite... > >> > >> First, there isn't a single mention of Linux in that article, or how the > >> simple removal of the name "ATI" will ever benefit the Linux community. > >> Second, not only Radeon cards will continue to exist as AMD Radeon, but > also > >> in the past the only thing that gave me trouble with Linux and ATI was > the > >> desktop compositing needed for compiz and the likes, which, TBH, is > >> unnecessary fluff. Have used a bunch of ATI cards with Linux in the > past, > >> always worked fine. > >> > >> This thread should be renamed to: "OFF-TOPIC: AMD removes the ATI name > and > >> Chris still dislikes their products". Hardly a reason for Linux users > to > >> rejoice. > >> > >> Just my 2c... > >> > >> -- > >> Dante > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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