Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>]

Luke-Jr wrote:

> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:27, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
>  
>
> > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > On Monday 05 December 2005 10:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > a hypothetical doomsday scenario by Arjan van de Ven
> > > > >          
> > > > Can I ask what prompted your post?
> > > >        
> > > I got one too many hatemails from a "nvidia fanboy" who blamed me for
> > > just about anything wrong in the world.... I fear that most of these
> > > people have no idea why open source drivers matter, or at least what the
> > > consequences are for not caring about drivers being open or not.
> > >      
> > I use nvidia cards, mostly because they work better than an alternative
> > for now, but every time I need a card I look for stuff that is more
> > open, because I hate to have to use the non-free closed stuff to do
> > graphics. (Having no real choice in this is really annoying to me!)
> >    
>
> The ATi Radeon 9200 works fine...
>  
Lucky you.  Mine doesn't.  Using 3D on it makes the machine unstable,
and the performance is apalling too. So I'm looking for something
else - a radeon 7000 is cheap .  . .

And don't say that a crash during a 3D game isn't important - it is
a two-user machine and the other user is not amused when this happens.

Helge Hafting
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