Re: FC4 or FC5

[alan <alan clueserver org>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Sean wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:41:49 -0700 (PDT)
> BRUCE STANLEY <bruce stanley prodigy net> wrote:
>
> > And this may be the very reason why we can not get the drivers for our hardware
> > distributed with Suse anymore.
> >
> > If there is no legal way around this,  Suse Desktop will be a thing of the past
> > for the general desktop user (e.g. home user who is not technical).
> >
> > Suse and other Linux vendors will not have a snow balls chance in you
> > know where in competing against  MS Windows with out drivers.
> >
> > This would include USB devices as well.
>
> That's just FUD.  We're already starting to see open source drivers for 3d video
> trickle in; yeah it's slow.

For what cards?  I have yet to see any reasonably fast card with 
acceptable 3d drivers.  If there is one, I would like to know about it.

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