> From: Carl Busjahn > > I have to disagree. If people are really concered about performance > they should be using Linux anyway. What David said is also > true. I'm > not going to reccomend a company that doesn't support Linux. We also > know that Online games require good bandwidth, and the Linux tcp/ip > stack just tears up anything you can get from Microsoft. Linux could > EASILY become the de facto gaming operating system.
Games, games, games - the world seems to know that this is the real and only 3D. Let me tell you that there are many more things were 3D can be important: - web design (Gimp and alikes) - mechanical CAD (AutoCAD was one of the first apllications ported to Linux) - cinema rendering (Hello Daryll, how does your render farm do?) - visualisation (VRML) - scientific works (ever seen a SuSE package cover?) - QUAKE. *grin* Today i have seen a few folks comparing the open sourced drivers for the ATI with the closed source drivers from nVidia. Let me say, that nVidia is not the only one trying to play in the higher level of 3D computing for Linux. [ads on] If you have a look into the (german?) October issue of iX you will find the FireGL4 mentioned. And it scored pretty impressive on Linux compared to its "opponent" on the Windows side. [ads off] Yes, its a closed driver. But i.e. a digital movie company that gets a problem cant wait for ages until there will be an open source developer that will care for their specific problem. The truth is that servicing a real business needs a serious business as a serving party. I have seen the days, where the test suites for such drivers were made up of a few XFree 2D programs, like the xcalc program. It must be obvious to the "deep in" Linux professional that this is no longer state of the art. There are so numerous BIG packages availabel or in advanced progress that you will hardly take xcalc for testing just to the lack of your time. Anyways, if even one person talks back that there is a specific problem with some simple application then a fix is on the web/ftp page sooner than the word about this problem will spread. You can verify yourselves. I drive my private Linux box with an old S3 board. No 3D but the safety of a stable and reliable driver. This behaviour is considered by me as a result of the drivers age and the amount of testers in this time. I have to conclude, 3D on Linux is an old story. Professionals do like Linux but Linux is still not 3D mainstream. Anyways there are companys that make business out of the situation nowadays while projects like XFree86 do make their "deal" in the 2D lower end. The only question that i do have, how, when and to which side(s) will the resistive mainstream (=gaming + what else?) segment finally collapse if it ever will decide to collapse? Regards Alex. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing is older than those benchmark values from yesterday... _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
