[Leaplist] ATI releases hardware specs

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

On Thu, September 13, 2007 8:49 pm, Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> On 9/13/07, patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>> No thanks, nVidia, and I am happy to see some major market pressure come
>> to bear upon you!
>
> NVidia still owns this market for Linux.  Period.
>
> I don't buy ATI because right now, their cards are terrible in Linux,
> and will be for at least the next 12 months.  They have of bad karma
> from the past couple of years to make up for.
>
> Additionally, NVidia has done plenty to make other hardware available
> in Linux with open source drivers.

Agreed. There has not ever been working 3D support from ATI to this day.
You may get partially working support... but who wants that? I'd estimate
that we'd only get working ATI drivers around 6-12 months after ATI open
sources their drivers... not before then, and only with their newest cards
(the HD versions). Those with older ATI cards are plain out of luck.

Of course, after this occurs and matures... I'll likely start buying ATI
cards again. But as mentioned, that will take 12 months to get to the
infancy stage and probably another 2-3 years before I feel it has matured
enough for me to buy. It's a good long-term solution from AMD/ATI... but
ATI has such cruddy support to start from that I don't see people
immediately jumping ship.