new G4 towers

riley yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Sep 5 11:02:00 2002


Whatever, ya'll.  Who cares?  

The original question was which card will there be support for sooner. 
 Dan (who works on the only actively maintained PPC linux distro) has 
answered the question.  Can we avoid another one of those arguments please?

riley

Thayne wrote:

>nVida gives Not only binaries, but source as well so you can compile your
>own.
>
>ATI has terible linux support
>
>
>----- 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
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>
>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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