From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 31 11:17:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07805 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:17:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0513.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.190.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07800 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:17:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA06636 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:17:51 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:17:51 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: From Slashdot... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=linux-ggi&m=91750053603759&w=2 I'm just curious, but what direction is FreeBSD taking? I just picked up this really nice AGP video card (Creative Graphics Blaster RivaTNT chipset, 16MB of RAM...specs on it look very impressive)... Its barely supported by XFree86, none of the Creative Graphics cards appear to be supported by AccelX...and, with the above notice, it looks like Creative has a whole department of programmers setup to fall behind Linux... ...is FreeBSD destined to be a "server" environment only, with anyone wanting to do any serious graphics or multimedia needing to fall onto the Linux bandwagon? What do we have to do to improve our imagine? Get the "big companies" like Creative to recognize us and provide us with driver support? Or, is this something that really doesn't concern us, as we are trying to fill a totally different niche? Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message