On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:32, HaywireMac wrote: > On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:07:32 +0100 > Pete Stean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > this > > will be my third attempt at installing the o/s - we all love to hate > > MS but I'm beginning to see why people don't venture out into the wild > > > > unknown of linux.... phew! > > Well, talk to Tom Brinkman about that. Not to excuse the lag in hardware > support in Linux, but there is a very good reason. > > When a hardware vendor comes out with a new product, in your case I > believe the display is the prob, not the Nvidia, they are lined up at > MS's door to get software support, while Linux hackers have to beg and > plead and hack and reverse engineer support for the latest and greatest. > > My point is, considering the way Linux is deliberately and egregiously > shut out of the hardware advancement train with closed-source drivers > and the like, it's a miracle that Linux developers are able to even keep > up. These people are to be lauded and praised for their continues > efforts, in many if not most cases for *free*. > > You don't choose Linux, as I think you implied, for the whiz-bang > multimedia support, gee,, George Lucas, and Industrial Light and Magic choose Linux. AMD and NVidia just for that. the August Linux Journal has a great writeup about the Rackspace built linux powered ILM 'deathstar' render-farm. some 1500 AMD athlon 1600, on 750 MoBos, each with 2 gigs ram. ahhh to dream of such power... just wait a few years (like 20),, I swear I will have that much power.
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