On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:58:42PM -0400, Aaron Suen wrote: > > If 3D gaming is a priority for you, you might want to try FreeBSD. It's only > a stone's throw from OpenBSD (at least considerably closer than any Linux > I've ever seen) and XFree86 has DRI and native support for many vidcards. I > have 3D accel working great on my Radeon 7500 using the native (not written > by ATI) drivers. >
If 3D gaming is a priority then that is unlikely to be "good enough" for todays games. The native DRI driver only handles older cards, to get 3D acceleration support for later cards you have to used the closed source vendor driver which pretty much forces you down the Linux path unless you can bear to run windows. Good luck getting ATI cards and Linux to play nicely... the ATI drivers for Linux are not the best, it's a bit hit or miss as to if they work or not in a particular machine. -- Brett Lymn
