Re: replacing X Window System !

[David Lang]

On Sat, 20 May 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> > These days NVidia supports the OSS community much more than ATI does,
> > while NVidia used to be the dark side. There is still a lot of space for
> > improvement though :-)
>
> 	RFC 1925
> 	Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two; you can't have all three.
>
> Something similar (opensource, speed, support for newest hardware) goes for
> today's graphics cards.

true for nVidia and ATI, not true for many other hardware vendors (most of 
which do not make graphics cards), so this isn't a general trueism like 
RFC 1925, just the current broken state among the current graphics 
leaders.

David Lang

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