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Date:      Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:17 +0100
From:      Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
Message-ID:  <20081207193517.GA20905@laverenz.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> <11167f520812070853i3b6fa6dei6e5c71669416470@mail.gmail.com> <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:18:08PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't need super-high-speed 
> 3D.

Who is "most freebsd users"? I agree that there are more important
things to worry about than nvidia/amd64 support, but: if you want to buy
a computer these days and want to use it as a desktop/workstation with
our favourite operating system, you have a serious problem to find a
graphics card that is both useable and buyable.

> so simply don't use nvidia/ati

Ok, what else then?

Uwe




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