The desktop wars

[Peter Gordon]

Sean wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:22:48 -0700
> Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately, one of the biggest defeats for the Free desktop currently
>> is lack of proper video driver support from major manufacturers, such as
>> NVidia/ATi. Thankfully, ATi's older stuff works well with the in-tree
>> radeon drivers and Intel has published specs and source code for the
>> drivers for their integrated Graphics Media Accelerator stuff; (Thanks,
>> Intel!) and the Open Video project looks very promising as well.
> 
> One glimmer of hope is the Radeon r300 open source driver.  Pretty decent
> 3D support is already working (apparently enough to play doom 3 etc) and it
> should only get better over time.  That let's you run pretty modern hardware,
> at least X700 and X800 and perhaps even more recent.
> 

Awesome! I didn't know that R300 worked with the newer stuff too. Thanks
for the info! Things appear to be going very well for the Free desktop
at the moment; and only improving. 8)

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