Re: New computer planned
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:50:21 -0500
Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> 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
Understood - I'm not in the fanatical fringe (although I'm somewhat
sympathetic to them), but I was just disappointed to find that the
system I purchased, with its vaunted Intel graphics, was crashing under
Debian.
Celejar
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