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Re: New computer planned



On 02/24/2012 09:22 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar:
Curt Howland<Howland@Priss.com>  wrote:

...

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.
That's what everyone says, but it's not as true as it might be. Squeeze
is shipping X stuff / drivers that cause GPU crashes on my (2007 era)
Thinkpad T61 with Intel GM965 graphics:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44478

/snip/

Just a little philosophy here: You may have groked, by now, that there is a fanatical fringe of Linux users who would not use anything but Open Source software that is not encumbered by a manufacturer's name, like NVidia, or Mozilla, etc. You may or may not be in that group, but if you are not, then don't let those who are beat you down. Use what works! (Just as some of us use Windows when it's reasonable to do so. For instance, if you have Photoshop on your Win machine, it would be plain stupid to force yourself into using Gimp, and if you have AutoCad, why fool with lesser programs that may be free/open-source, but not only don't have all the capability, but would require you to learn a new paradigm to use them. And I wait in hope for Corel to bring WordPerfect back to Linux, but for serious writing, I will cheerfully go to
Windows, where it lives.  Not free.  Not open-source.  Works!)

/rant off

--doug


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