From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751271AbVLJCRX (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 21:17:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751317AbVLJCRW (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 21:17:22 -0500 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:34273 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932297AbVLJCRT (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 21:17:19 -0500 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Zwane Mwaikambo Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:49:36 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200512052122.02485.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512081549.36459.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 05 December 2005 21:56, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > Do you think this opensource hardware could keep up with nvidia and ati > hardware development? Joe sixpack is all about the fastest hardware. Not really. The early adopters and cutting edge gamers are, sure. For everybody else its price/performance and "good enough to run my games". The playstation 2 is how many years old now? But it's still selling fresh copies, and will until the PS3 comes out. (And even then, people will still play PS2 games.) Like everything else, this is application driven. If it runs World of Warcraft and City of Heroes, there's a market for it. May be a cheap market, but it's there. Especially if it fits nicely in laptops, has low power consumption, doesn't need a cooling fan... (Also, keep in mind that half of graphics performance is how much texture memory the sucker has and how fast the ram it talks to is.) (I remember the days when games had a selection menu so you could tell it what kind of sound card you had. 3D video cards are still there. Won't last forever.) Rob -- Steve Ballmer: Innovation! Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.