On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:28:29AM -0500, ByteEnable wrote: > he comes in contact with. You have NVidia on one side welding their the > hood shut from the inside, then you have Red Hat on the outside welding > the hood shut. Errr, how's that? > So he should walk away from Linux because he wants good video performance? > There is no 3D hardware available with open source drivers that is on par > with the closed source drivers from NVidia and ATI. Yeah. That sucks. > Its going to take HP or IBM to get behind a product to get NVidia to jump. Hopefully, to get them to jump to open source. As you point out in a paragraph I've snipped :) the ROI for this just doesn't make it worthwhile. But in a few years, when 3D is pretty much the basis for everything, it's suddenly going to go from a fringe problem to a very very serious one. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
