Hardware upgrade

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:23:12 -0500, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:16:14PM -0600, MHeinrich at genencor.com took 90 lines to write:
> > I've finally decided to upgrade my K2-300 to a newer model.  The barebones
> > system I am looking at has:
> >
>
> >
> > MSI GEFORCE FX5200-TD 128MB DDR 8XAGP or
> > FX GEFORCE MX 4000 128MB DDR AGP 8X or
> > ABIT RADEON 9200SE-DT 128MB DDR 8XAGP
> 
> I'd probably opt for the Radeon card simply because ATI plays nicer with
> FOSS than NVIDIA. 

Just curious. Have I been hiding under a rock or have you? I've read
post after post from people who can't get the ATI drivers to work at
all on 2.6. Gentoo users would probably reverse your comment. Nvidia
does have problems with new kernel releases, but they do seem to
respond a little more quickly than ATI.

YMMV,

-- 
 Collins