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Passive Cooling (please! no need to produce a 500MHz GPU!)ĥ.
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And if you are a serious gamer you need Windows anyway.Ĥ. First of all, it’s a minority which always needs more power. Therefore please don’t overdo it! There’s no reason targeting the gamer audience. Having rudimentary OpenGL support sure would be nice, but you will never be able to compete with nvidia and ati. Gee, i dunno, maybe the project might even be educational, insprirational and fun?īut whatever – close your mind, accept the conventional wisdom thats been shoved down your throat, and continue to believe that the only important aspect of computing is the framerate which can be acheived in Doom3, nobody working on this project is going to stop you. So please shut up about how it ‘won’t sell’, and ‘won’t perform’ and ‘can’t be profitable’ and leave those who are actually going to do the work to get it done.Īll I know is that it is a damn sight better to try to do this, than it is to sit on your ass and resign yourself to a future where Linux’s future on the desktop rests with whoever eventually gains monopoly control (and it’s a race between NVidia and ATI at the moment) over the graphics accelerator market. There is something deeply unsatisfyign about this situation to many of us who are interested in knowing about how our computers work, as opposed to merely ‘using’ them – or being ‘software consumers’. There simply isn’t a graphics card available that supports all the features needed for a modern X-Windows desktop that has open source drivers, and/or a future development path.
There is a hole in the market, which none of the ‘big players’ are filling. If they change their minds, they’ll prove themselves to be liars. nVidia swears up and down that they can’t release specs because of 3rd party IP. We decided to tell them to take a flying leap, and then I designed my own from scratch. Here’s an example: At Tech Source, we declined to buy a PCI interface from another company because it would have legally prevented us from EVER designing our own (that’s how the contract was worded, seriously!). ATI and nVidia take shortcuts by buying IP, but then they get stuck with all sorts of legal restrictions. I designed my first GPU from scratch, and I’ll do the same with this one. I have the advantage in that I have no encumbered IP.
(2) They want to hide implementation details from each other, because they compete with each other and do not want to give each other an advantage. (1) They have IP in their designs licensed from 3rd parties which they cannot legally publish. There are two obstacles to nVidia and ATI opening:
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If the large open source community could take part in the development of drivers from the start, maybe the price wouldn’t become too high either? Many people would be perfectly happy just to have at least some very basic 3D support for their OS, maybe to use Blender, or to occasionally play Tuxracer etc. There are thousands of such users that might be interested in this produt and lots of developers who have been eagerly waiting for something like this.īesides, hardcore 3D gaming is not the only market for 3D. There are lots of people using systems that don’t have any sort of (at least proper) 3D card support yet: NetBSD, OpenBSD, many smaller fast developing hobby operatings systems etc.
Still I think that this project has some potential, just because they would be so much different from everyone else, and because there is a growing potential market for this kind of open source cards. And normal MS Windows users would probably not be interested in the product anyway, whether closed soucre or open source. Even if they tried to produce closed source non-nVidia/Ati-based cards, could they compete with nVidia and Ati very successfully? Probably not, the competition is hard enough for current nVidia/Ati manufacturers not to mention independent players like Matrox.
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