ATI vs. nVidia -- Terra Soft's stance.

[Dan Burcaw]

> On Thursday 05 September 2002 04:20 pm, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> > Look, we're not talking about x86 here.  On x86 Linux you do have more
> > of a choice.  Although it should be noted that Red Hat refuses to support
> > the nVidia binary drivers.  There must be a reason for that.
> 
> Dan, 
> 
> I pointed out way back the Nvidia drivers are intel only at this point and 
> there is no way to recompile them to work on PPC.
> 
> But saying they are bad period is not fair either. Presumably the man will 
> dual boot into OSX as well as YDL, so he should be taking the OSX support 
> into account as well - I would.

I was speaking in a YDL/PPC context.. sorry for the confusion.  Still, 
even if he's considering OS X.. and intends to use YDL even a little, 
nVidia is not a choice.  I  have a Radeon 7500 in my Quicksilver 2002.
It works great under YDL and works great under OS X.