On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:24, Erik Steffl wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:24 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> >
> >>Happily I've never suffered a damaged file in Linux. But I'm plenty
> >>wary when it comes to 3D video driver support in Linux (I use nVidia's
> >>own driver on my desktop machine).
> >
> >
> > Why are you all running these closed source 3D drivers anyway? Are you
> > all so hooked on Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament or whatever that you HAVE
> > to play it on your audio workstation?
>
> I guess it's xscreensaver:-) There's number of programs that use
> opengl that one might want to use, specially if the computer is not
> strictly for audio, just look which packages depend on openGL libs, few
> examples from debian unstable: mplayer, snd-gtk, rezound, xine,
> kino-timfx, alsaplayer-gtk, cdbakeoven etc. It's not just for the
> games... (then again lot of non-game software that requires openGL would
> probably work fairly well with software only openGL).
>
But of course, more important than all of that - tuxracer ;-)
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