Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751415AbWESWe6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 18:34:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751416AbWESWe6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 18:34:58 -0400 Received: from warden-p.diginsite.com ([208.29.163.248]:57512 "HELO warden.diginsite.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751415AbWESWe6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 18:34:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@dlang.diginsite.com To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Sander , David Greaves , Panagiotis Issaris , Helge Hafting , linux cbon , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060518172827.73908.qmail@web26601.mail.ukl.yahoo.com><446D8F3 6.3010201@aitel.hist.no> <446DA746.50506@lumumba.uhasselt.be><446DD75D.8050203@dgreaves.com> <20060519150143.GA28819@favonius> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1126 Lines: 29 On Sat, 20 May 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> These days NVidia supports the OSS community much more than ATI does, >> while NVidia used to be the dark side. There is still a lot of space for >> improvement though :-) >> > > RFC 1925 > Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two; you can't have all three. > > Something similar (opensource, speed, support for newest hardware) goes for > today's graphics cards. true for nVidia and ATI, not true for many other hardware vendors (most of which do not make graphics cards), so this isn't a general trueism like RFC 1925, just the current broken state among the current graphics leaders. David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/