n e ati or nvidia
?
Use your words.
I'm considering buying a new video card, I would like to get peoples opinions on what to buy.
for what os?
I always go with not-nVidia.
wouldn't do that on linux if you value performance
Just Windows 7, but I might consider dual booting with Linux at some point.
but on windows I'd go ATI for sure.
Yeah, that's been my problem for years. ATI is kinda lacking on Linux drivers.
it's okay now if you buy old enough
(5xxx)
I was looking at the 6xxx series as a possible option.
the open source ones are catching up.
http://goo.gl/8lc45 - nVidia did this.
... 15 years ago?
hold a grudge much? :P
What have they done since?
well it's still "unmaintainable" since it's a blob, so I imagine you'd still have an issue with that.
I fall more into the "I just want it to work" camp.
In the meantime, Intel have released full specs, drivers, and work with the open source community. So I just use integrated graphics.
Might not be the most pretty thing in the world, but at least I don't need no stinkin' blobs.
mhoran: different strokes for different folks... if I was building a workstation, I'd go integrated for... well, exactly why you said. If I wanted to play a game at some point, I wouldn't.
Yup. I don't game, so there's that. :)
i remember some guy from ati/amd saying years ago at red hat summit about how they were gonna open source everything
still hasn't happened  :/
seems unlikely.
I doubt they could, even if they wanted to.
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/
doesn't explicitly say what he said.
iirc they improved cooperation with the open development (the radeon/radeonhd stuff) ... but I doubt they can actually open the drivers, they almost certainly don't own all the IP.
well i was there
he said it :P
I doubt they own the IP. They can probably open the specs on some things, but I'm ~100% sure they can't 'just' opensource the driver.
ati doesn't own the IP to the drivers for their own cards?
they almost certainly license some of it, yes.
hmm, perhaps. you would think an EVP would know better than to promise something (quite publicly) that they couldn't deliver on, though.