[Xorg] DRI merging

[Jon Smirl]

--- Daniel Stone <daniel at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:42:58PM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > X on GL won't ship anywhere for at least a year. It will probably be two
> years
> > before it is in wide spread use. You can get good 3D cards for $35 now, in
> two
> > years due to Longhorn all systems will be shipping with them. 
> 
> So? My sister still uses a P120, and is happy with it. Why should she be
> forced to upgrade?

No one is going to force anyone to upgrade. Just continue using the software
that you have installed right now. I've watched several people install Windows
XP over Win95 and then complain about how slow their machine became.

> 
> > I still own an 8086 based machine with no protected mode, does that mean
> that
> > Linux should not support protect mode? You can;t look backwards at hardware
> > support, if you do you will never add any new features.
> 
> I am not suggesting *removing* support, rather *adding* support. Should
> we get rid of support for sub-AthlonXP-class while we're at it? No-one
> uses those old pieces of crap.
> 
> > There are plans for supporting non-accelerated cards, but you can't expect
> them
> > to perform like a decent 3D one. No amount of software is going to make my
> 8086
> > play a reasonable game of Quake.
> 
> Yeah, but windowing systems shouldn't have the same system requirements
> as Quake.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Stone                                           
> <daniel at freedesktop.org>
> freedesktop.org: powering your desktop               
> http://www.freedesktop.org
> 

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