[geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] T H E b r i Q

[joshua d boyd]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:35:17PM -0500, ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:17:57PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> 
> > Why are they so useless in a nonPC?  Doesn't XFree still work?  Aren't the
> > G4s supposed to be nearly as good as the P4s?  And wouldn't it be nice to
> > have decent video performance on a non NT, non Tru64 600+ mhz alpha?
> 
> The advantage of the GeForce is 3d, right?  No 3d drivers for anything
> but Win, Mac, and Linux/x86 (binary only).

There are source drivers.  They aren't as good as the binary only ones,
but they are there.  Besides, the Geforce was just an example.  I could
have put Radeon there (which also has source drivers) or G400 (which also
has source drivers).  

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Joshua D. Boyd