Thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for. Mostly because i think that System76 <http://www.system76.com> should start moving away from Intel and NVIDIA and towards AMD/ATI<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1063323> .
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 20:13, Arc Riley <arcri...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > ATI did produce some pretty horrendous proprietary drivers for Linux, and > many people incorrectly carry that over to today. > > AMD purchased them and much has changed. All the driver specs have been > released and, along with Redhat and Novell, there's good support for almost > all of their chipsets now. They even released specs for their latest > chipset line, re-affirming their commitment to doing so. > > The free drivers produced from this have been going through evolutionary > leaps every few months, we're seeing all sorts of shader support added to > the older chipsets. I've not found a single Radeon card recently that > wasn't supported, even a client's crappy old IGP Radeon in a laptop I > recently worked on worked great with Compiz and the games I tried it with. > > While it's great that Ubuntu supports people with nVidia cards, there > should really be a more unified "Don't buy nVidia" message being delivered > to Ubuntu users. Their drivers need to be updated for every kernel version, > if they don't update them in time any Ubuntu release could be left having to > use an older kernel or loose support for nVidia users, not to mention the > ethical issues of deppending on proprietary software for such a core OS > function as graphic support. > > Relying on nVidia's continued support for Ubuntu is neither sustainable nor > in the spirit of Ubuntu. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming > Post to : ubuntu-gam...@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo
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