Re: Luxo jr.

[Tom Gall <tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com>]

Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> 
> Tom Gall wrote:
> 
> >Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>our department is thinking of buying a number of new desktop machines,
> >>and we are considering the new iMac as an alternative to the standard
> >>i386 boxes.  Has anybody here run Debian on one of these things yet?
> >>Any glitches, caveats, pitfalls?
> >>
> >Hi Jens,
> >
> >Well the key is that the box isn't yet in the hands of those who if it
> >needs fixes for any reason can create those fixes. It's also quite
> >possible it'll just work.
> >
> So there are drivers for the nVidia GeForce2 DRI on PPC?  I'd think that
> will be the biggest obstacle, and that's why I'm not rushing out to get
> one, though I'm in the market for something like it.  Then again, having
> to maintain binary drivers for multiple kernel/platform combinations
> might finally push nVidia to open up their code, but I wouldn't count on it.

Well I have faith in Annex and his latest efforts with nVidia's
GeForce2. Sure
things aren't 100% done yet but hey it's a start. 

Regards,

Tom
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