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Re: New computer planned



Curt Howland <Howland@Priss.com> writes:
> The only thing I did for "Linux compatibility" was to not get on-board
> graphics. I bought an Nvidia-based graphics card that was not
> "bleeding edge", even though it's got 3D acceleration. The card has
> it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very good thing,
> and it drives 3D games perfectly well using the Nvidia supplied
> graphics driver.
>
> It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work
> perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay
> purely open-source.

Radeon GPUs also seem to work pretty much flawlessly with the default
free drivers these days.

-miles

-- 
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
[Iris Murdoch]


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