new G4 towers

[Thayne]

Go with the nVidia, ATI doesn't support Linux at all.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Francois Donati" <donati@ast.obs-mip.fr>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:04 AM
Subject: new G4 towers


> 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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