Quoting Brian J. Murrell <v4l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I think the Nvidia chips do all of the above but I am leary of getting > into a situation where you are dependent on a hardware vendor > continuing to produce drivers. If they should one day decide that > Linux is no longer worth the effort, the hardware will be junk. Even if the OEM drops Linux support today, the existing drivers will be OK for a year or two (until you are somehow -forced- to upgrade -this- box), and by then the hardware will be nothing but obsolete junk anyway... I still have a VESA video card (made in 1995 IIRC), 800x600x256, does anyone want it? ;-) Dmitri -- "Linus Torvalds suffers from a rare condition, the need to develop free world-class operating systems in his spare time. Before he goes down for the last time, he wants to get into the Guinness Book of Records as the person who received the most sub-sixty gram pieces of cruft from other appreciative hacker-types around the world. (Seen on the linux-kernel list, from Frank Wales, <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
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