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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.mnsinc.com!news From: richk@mnsinc.com (Richard Krehbiel) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Date: 29 Mar 1996 16:05:31 -0500 Organization: Monumental Network Systems Lines: 23 Sender: richk@krehbiel.mnsinc.com Message-ID: <m2ag0zobj8.fsf@krehbiel.mnsinc.com> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <4ja099$r8k@ceylon.gte.com> <4ja28c$9da@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jb67e$eil@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: krehbiel.mnsinc.com In-reply-to: roell@xinside.com's message of 28 Mar 1996 17:43:28 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14049 comp.os.linux.development.system:20556 comp.os.linux.x:28393 comp.os.linux.hardware:35259 comp.os.linux.setup:48742 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:425 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2958 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2724 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16541 In article <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> roell@xinside.com (Thomas Roell) writes: > What you say here is kind of childish. The problem is that people take > the cost of hardware for granted and complain just about > software. They spend huge amounts of money for their graphics card, > just to get half of the possible performance because they have to run > XF86. If one is smart instead buy a decently fast graphics card that > is optimally supported by Accelertaed-X and you will save money and > get a faster overally solution. I'm just starting to get frustrated > that even reasonable bright people seem to have a mental barrier to > realize this. It's just that reasonably bright people want free stuff. No matter what the hardware cost XFree86 adds no software cost. I personally have decided that I'm willing to spend money on commercial software for Windows NT (and perhaps '95) but not linux. It means my W32 card will not have high color support in Linux, but that's okay. -- -- Richard Krehbiel, richk@mnsinc.com Manassas, VA, USA