[Gllug] Linux friendly graphics card

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On Fri, 19 May 2006, tethys at gmail.com moaned:
> ATI Radeon 9250. It's the fastest card for Linux that has accelerated
> open drivers from 3D. I have them (or the slightly older 9200) in all
> bar one of my machines, and they're more than fast enough for even
> quite intensive graphical work, particularly if you're not playing
> first person shooters. Highly recommended.

Seconded. (It doesn't rule out all first-person shooters, either; it's
quite fast enough for oolite, for instance.)

> If you're not doing 3D at all, then any card should be fine. I have a
> Radeon X800 in my other box, which is blazingly fast for 2D work, but
> if you want 3D, you'd need to resort to ATI's binary only driver[1].

It's lookign increasingly likely that 3D will be used for *all*
rendering in the not too terribly distant future...

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