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Subject: Re: RIVA TNT2 AGP 16 MB Video Card quiestion an X-Server
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At 12:19 AM 2/03/01 -0600, Victor R. Cardona wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:28:30PM -0800, Tyler McGeorge wrote:
> > This may seem like a strange question, and it is
> > relatively off topic...But I run a 4MB 2d only video
> > card in my FreeBSD machine, and even if I ran X, I
> > wouldn't need more. I maybe losing your context with
> > my prejudice that FreeBSD is, in general, used as a
> > server machine and not a user machine... If you were
> > to want a user machine, I would suggest Slackware
> > Linux over FreeBSD.
>
>I have to agree on this. Linux also has drivers for Nvidia cards which
>also work very well.
>
>Now if only a Linux distro would use something like ports...
>

Erm, what about Debian?


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