On Mit, 2002-01-23 at 15:53, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Tom Gall wrote: > > >Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > >>our department is thinking of buying a number of new desktop machines, > >>and we are considering the new iMac as an alternative to the standard > >>i386 boxes. Has anybody here run Debian on one of these things yet? > >>Any glitches, caveats, pitfalls? > >> > >Hi Jens, > > > >Well the key is that the box isn't yet in the hands of those who if it > >needs fixes for any reason can create those fixes. It's also quite > >possible it'll just work. > > > So there are drivers for the nVidia GeForce2 DRI on PPC? I'd think that > will be the biggest obstacle, and that's why I'm not rushing out to get > one, though I'm in the market for something like it. Then again, having > to maintain binary drivers for multiple kernel/platform combinations > might finally push nVidia to open up their code, but I wouldn't count on it.
Me neither. Chances are virtually zero nVidia will ever open up, so you're in their hands for 3D. Well working 2D seems to be hard enough with what we have... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
