good news for opengraphics? [LWN.net]

good news for opengraphics?

Posted Feb 7, 2006 22:33 UTC (Tue) by tcabot (subscriber, #6656)
Parent article: X graphics get a boost (NewsForge)

This might be good news for the opengraphics folks. I'm planning on buying one of their cards (mostly because I admire their chutzpah), but I wasn't planning on getting much practical benefit from it since I'm not a gamer so I don't use 3d much.

I'd imagine that many more folks would be interested in opengraphics if there was some big benefit to running basic kde/gnome applications on a 3d card.

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good news for opengraphics?

Posted Feb 7, 2006 22:39 UTC (Tue) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624) [Link]

There might be more interest if their website worked too!

Currently it's giving TikiWiki installation errors.. :-(

http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=Open-Graphics

good news for opengraphics?

Posted Feb 8, 2006 0:39 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Seems to be working now... for me at least...

good news for opengraphics?

Posted Feb 8, 2006 0:59 UTC (Wed) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624) [Link]

Excellent - they'd been down long enough to make it into Google's cache
but were probably working on it as I typed. Glad to see them back again..

good news for opengraphics?

Posted Feb 7, 2006 23:06 UTC (Tue) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227) [Link]

Hate to say it, but based on the mailing list discussion rate and the amount of work left to do, it's likely going to be a few years _at least_ before the open graphics project produces anything usable for casual users.

Also, their cards aren't being designed for a 3D gamer. That's something they've been pretty clear about. The OGA will not be a gaming card by any stretch.

good news for opengraphics?

Posted Feb 9, 2006 0:28 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

While I can't say for sure what a realistic ETA is for completion, I think your gamer card comments are off the mark.

A large percentage of Linux users, at least the reader clientele here, would probably be satisfied with high quality, well performing Linux Graphics, as opposed to the fastest rendering of random game X which doesn't even run on Linux.