new G4 towers

[Dan Burcaw]

> Well Since I don't work for a Linux company I guess I'm not qualified to
> give you advise on this matter, but if I were getting the machine you are I
> would go with the nVida for sure.  If it doesn't work with YellowDog it will
> probably work with Mandrake, the other *only* maintained ppc linux distro.

This is just crap. I'm sorry but this is again, plain wrong.  
Terra Soft was the company that got the GeForce 2 support
working on PPC Linux.  NVidia does not provide specs, they do not
and have REFUSED TO port their driver to PowerPC Linux.  The nVidia
GeForce 4 is not supported, and will not be for quite a long time.
nVidia is not giving us any details thus it is a reverse engineering 
effort.  The Radeon 9000 is already working under YDL.. but not yet 
release quality.  Please stop posting mis-information on this list.

-Dan



> From: "Jim Robinson" <jrobinson@sierra-idt.com>
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:44 PM
> Subject: Re: new G4 towers
> 
> 
> > Ok Kiddies,
> > You both make good points, But I for one am confused.
> > Can you please answer the original question. When I place my order, which
> one as
> > it stands right now will work. If none, then say neither and go by a card
> that
> > will work.
> > Yike, this babbling is making my head hurt... ;-P
> > James Robinson
> >
> > Robert Brandtjen wrote:
> >
> > > On Thursday 05 September 2002 11:50 am, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:
> > > > If you search the linux kernel list, you will see a lot of people very
> > > > unhappy with nVidia, particularly because they are not publishing
> their
> > > > API.
> > >
> > > That Sir, is there is their right, this is a capitalist country here and
> I for
> > > one see nothing wrong with protecting one's intellectual property if one
> so
> > > chooses. They do at least support Linux, with very frequent updates to
> the
> > > linux community ( 4 of them in the last year, IIRC) - far more updates
> then
> > > ATI provides even to Windows.
> > > --
> > >  Robert Brandtjen
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