Re: 3D video card recommendations

Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-07T15:31:48Z

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 16:20 +0100, Toon van der Pas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:42:51AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > > 5) The vendor goes out of business and thus stops updating the driver
> >
> > MS folks would have the same problem.
>
> ...which proves the point Arjan is making.
>
> For one, I have an ISDN-adapter which doesn't work with any version of
> MS-Windows from this millennium (no drivers available), while it's still
> working great on current Linux kernels.

well despite your post; the Windows people are a lot better at keeping
old drivers working (win 9x to a NT based kernel was obviously a huge
change though). In linux you can use an old driver maybe for 6 months if
you're lucky.. in windows 6 years is no exception. So the problem is a
lot bigger in linux for the owner of such a card than it is in windows.