On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 21:39 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > On 4/21/07, Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com> wrote: > > > How's about if I put an ATI 9600 256MB card into this machine? How would > > that be? > > Then we'd get to mock you for having a high end card on which compiz > and beryl will not function :-P > > Get yourself an nvidia card if you want good linux support. Even if > the driver is proprietary, it functions REALLY well. > but since I'm not much of a gamer any more, and that ATI sitting in my wife's windows machine isn't really being used it only makes sense to pull it out of her machine and put it into mine. mocking! :) thats ok... I'd still have my trusty Linux workstation where I can get work done and it would look even prettier even if Beryl won't work. Eye-candy is real nice, but I'm far happier when my OS simply works and allows me to do the same. Reminds me of my workstation at work; Boss tells me one Monday morning that the Vista Business disks came in and that I should think about loading it on my workstation so I can get to know it and be able to support it cause sooner or later our clients are going to start ordering PC's running it. I had it on my system for a week and just scrapped it cause I spent more time working on getting things fixed or working than actually getting real work done. Now I tell our clients to stay as far away from Vista as possible if at all possible. When they ask me what can they run if all they can get from mainstream vendors is Vista, I tell'em the only OS that really makes any sense! Linux!! and with the wonderful things Novell is doing with Suse linux these days whether you're running a windows domain or a novell NDS tree Linux will fully integrate. Although I still much prefer CentOS (RHEL) over all the other distros, but when ya get right down to it, it's all still Linux under the hood. -- Mark "If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity." ============================================== Powered by CentOS5 (RHEL5)