Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:20:13 +0000
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Subject: Re: NVIDIA Driver 1.0-6111 fix
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	vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl on Sun Sep  5 04:03:33 2004)
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On 2004.09.05, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> said:
> > Tim Fairchild <tim@bcs4me.com> said:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Users don't really care about open and closed source. They just want 
> > > to play quake 3 (etc).
> 
> > I have never understood why these people don't just run Windows.
> 
> Some run Linux because it _works_, and also want to play.
> 

and why do people think that a fast 3d card is only used to play ?
I'm involved in graphics modelling, 3d simulation, 3d realtime and so on.
Try to run softimage on top of software GL...
Or run a lighting simulation of a building on top of the nv+mesa combo.

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werewolf!able!es                         \         It's better when it's free
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