new G4 towers

[Dan Burcaw]

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

That's awful advice! nVidia is the most Linux unfriendly
company out there.  ATI provides Linux developers with
information and video cards to get their cards working.

> ----- 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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