Re: Hardware (was Explaining Linux)

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> I don't think it is MS, I think actually it's games developers if anyone:
> System Shock 2 (probably the greatest game money can buy), needs a PII 300 and

Good game, shame they couldn't code an engine efficiently...

> a decent graphics card, and that's about six months old.  But because there are
> so many people out there who want to run such software, they will put PC's
> together so they can run Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 etc.  I know windows is a
> bloatfest, but the kit needed to run Quake 3 on Linux is the same as that as
> windows. Well, except you HAVE to own a Voodoo card with Linux's Quake 3 and
> Unreal Tournament.

Voodoo 1, Voodoo 2, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo 3
ATI Rage Pro (II, II+ all those stupid model names ATI insist on)
Matrox G200
Some wierd 3D labs GLINT card.
Nvidia TNT II/GeForce

Are all accelerated under XFree if you look hard enough.
(The support is a bit dodgy in places i.e. it depends very much
on kernel version and patience)

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