Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed May 21 02:55:21 UTC 2008


Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No.  The bottom line is that Fedora does not care about, cater to, or
>> promote binary drivers.  Period.
> 
> Do they care about having a usable fully functional system for a
> majority of their users?
> 
> 
>> You pulled that number out of your ass.  And it's wrong.  You have no
>> data to back that up, and what data does exist on smolts.org shows ATI
>> has a lead.
> 
> I *have* looked at the smolt stats, and they don't make any sense at
> all.  1.6% and 1.9%, that doesn't make any sense, the smolt stats have
> to be wrong.  I'm sure the total number of nVidia and ATI fedora
> desktop users is more than 4%.

Yes, that page is extremely strange if you are looking at the 
classes/video.  ATI and Nvidia are actually 83%+ of the identified 
adapter vendors although shown as 1.9/1.6 respectively, but by devices 
vmware and virtualbox virtual adapters come out on top.

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   Les Mikesell
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