new G4 towers

[Dan Burcaw]

The Radeon 9000 will be supposed rather soon.  The NVidia.. who knows.

> Hi everybody, 
> 
> I intend to buy rather soon one of the new G4 towers for scientific
> computing and would like to put linux on it (probably ydl, since it sounds
> like the only ppc distribution regularly maintained at the moment).  they
> mention 2 possible choices of graphics card for that machine, the 
> ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, and the nVidia GeForce 4, both with dual digital
> display support.  Having bought a while ago a new G4 with the nvidia
> GeForce 2 in it, i know what it means to have to wait for 6 months before
> having X working decently, and would like to avoid repeating the same
> mistake...  i imagine that nobody yet tried these new macs (which may not
> be truly available yet).  but at least, is there any idea about which
> of the 2 graphics card will be supported sooner?  It seems that Radeon are
> better supported under linux, but will it be true for this particular one,
> even if i'm only using a single (digital) display??  
> thanks in advance for any possible info.  
> jeanfrancois Donati
> 
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