new G4 towers

Dan Burcaw yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Sep 5 10:58:01 2002


> nVida gives Not only binaries, but source as well so you can compile your
> own.

> ATI has terible linux support

Both of these are such plain wrong. I urge everyone to
disregard these statements.  If anyone knows I do, because
I have to deal with ATI and NVidia as a Linux company.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Brandtjen" <rob@prometheusmedia.com>
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:38 AM
> Subject: Re: new G4 towers
> 
> 
> On Thursday 05 September 2002 11:14 am, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> And Nvidia provides Linux driver binaries which rival their windows
> counterparts, toss up if you ask me. ATI drivers are bare bones drivers,
> with
> a lot of the card's functionality not enabled.
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