What makes a production kernel?

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:50:38AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> buy new now locally (Brisbane, Australia) are ATI and NVIDIA.  (A
> GeForce2 MX400 (!) 64 Mb for AU$58 and a Radeon 9200 SE 64 Mb for
> AU$65.)  I'm sure the market is different in other countries, but i
> don't think Australia is an unrepresentative part of the world.

Every low end player now mostly targets the motherboard market. Its
just too expensive to bother with the hassle of connectors and bits
of board nowdays. I'm not so sure they are all low-end either - the later
intel i8xx 3D is rather nice. Just a PITA they don't do it for opteron or
C3 processor systems 8)

It would not unreasonable to expect plug in graphics cards to become a
specialist market. Both ATI and Nvidia are in that market already too.