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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:31:30AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: >> The problem with this statement is that Linux users are a drop in the >> bucket of sales for this hardware. Boycotting doesn't cost the vendors >> enough to make them care. And this does nothing for people who are >> converting over to Linux, and didn't buy hardware with that >> consideration in mind.> > Effectively this is why 3d drivers are the only thing we litearlly lost > control of. But my email was general. I wasn't only speaking of 3d > hardware.> > For 3d you're very well right, but once linux becomes mainstream in the > desktop, things could change.> > Also note, I've some 3d on my laptop but I need no binary only drivers > for it, so there's some option. Intel? That's all nice and dandy if and only if you have an Intel CPU. Not an option for AMD users, for obvious reasons. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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