Possibly offtopic : Binary only driver
Arjan van de Ven
arjanv at redhat.com
Mon Nov 22 08:07:35 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 19:26 -0500, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> *Someone* will produce a decent graphics card on Linux and provide
> Free Software drivers that will end up in the stock distributions of the
> Linux kernel and X.org.
give intel and via 2 more generations...
Already the new intel 9xx series is a step forward. Granted, it's not
yet there for the serious gamers, but it's a huge step forward. Two more
such steps...
And intel is being a very nice player and not only allows others to make
drivers, but even funded the writing of the drivers.
> Any company migrating most of their desktops to Linux will suddenly
> see an opportunity. Some additional percentage (1-2% maybe?) of their
also, remember that most business desktop people do NOT need 3D. In
fact, employers rather not have their employees play games at work :)
In that market, the extra $100 for the nvidia card is just added
expense, and even if it comes built into the machine, the nv driver will
be good enough
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