On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 16:34 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:04:35 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > c) Buy only supported 3D cards, or cards with it's proprietary component > > in userspace > > I'm not aware of any (good) 3D cards with open source drivers. Some ATI cards have a good 3D support. Check gatos.sf.net > Here's a post from a Linux sysadmin who ended up going with Solaris for > some new systems because of this issue. He explains it better than me: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=130413&cid=10880742 > > Relevant quote: > > "In fact, I recently had to ditch Linux for a project which required four > different third-party add-ons, because I couldn't find a Linux > distribution common to those supported by all four. We had to buy a Sun > machine and use Solaris, because Sun has the common sense to keep a > consistent driver API across each major version." Certification criteria is 99.99% of the time bullshit. If those vectors are the only vectors that sysadmin can think of... well, I have pity on him. Either he should know more, or he's being imposed great pains. Regards,
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