On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:55:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hopefully Nouveau gets 3D support within a couple of releases as well. Getting rid of the biggest pain of proprietary drivers would be one giant step forward for Linux on the desktop.
Yeah. While I wouldn't go out and buy nvidia cards I have a couple in systems I got as scrap and it would be nice to have 3d on them. I don't trust the nvidia stuff not to screw things up for helping test the nouveau drivers, so I have been stuck with only 2d support for a good chunk of F12's development.
The nouveau guys have made a surprising amount of progress and I think there is a good chance they will have good 3d support 2 or 3 releases down the road. (Though I would like to see Red Hat help out more to cut this to 1 or 2 releases, since I think the current situation hurts Fedora.) I'd also like to see people move away from Cg and use the free and more portable equivalents.