From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 08:53:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2465616A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:53:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from laas.laas.fr (laas.laas.fr [140.93.0.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499CD43D31 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:53:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from l1@npf.deec.uc.pt) Received: by laas.laas.fr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAU8rTrR002643; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:53:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41AC3509.40809@npf.pt.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:53:29 +0100 From: Paulo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041020) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Nottebrock References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <87zn15zoqo.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> <41A63A78.2030506@mukappabeta.de> <41A9CC27.3030408@saunalahti.fi> <41AA70E3.2000108@mukappabeta.de> <41AB1977.3090101@npf.pt.freebsd.org> <41AB8F9D.8070100@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <41AB8F9D.8070100@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at CNRS-LAAS cc: Matthias Buelow cc: Pertti Kosunen cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Paulo Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:53:35 -0000 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Paulo wrote: > >> You are forgetting that there are many people that really need fast >> 3D graphics. In the place I work there are people working on computer >> animation, 3D models visualization on linux, solaris and freebsd. > > > I wonder what kind of applications they would use on FreeBSD for such > tasks. Custom developed? And if so, why on FreeBSD, which really isn't > a logical choice for a 3D graphics workstation platform? > Yes custom developed, we are a research lab. The question is not why freebsd, for me the question is "why not freebsd". It just needs good drivers for 3D graphics cards, the usual GL libraries (for instance), and the applications will appear. There is something that intrigates me, I use FreeBSD since 1.x and I still see people saying that FreeBSD is not for this kind of application or that. Sorry but I don't know of any limitation in the OS that precludes its use with computer graphics applications, office, multimedia etc. Just bring in the necessary drivers and libraries and it will be as good as any other OS for developing any kind of applications. Paulo