Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 02:23 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Is a corporation going to want to spend $100 per graphics card per PC,
> so that the default Gnome 3 actually works, or are they going to
> continue to only want to put in the $20 graphics card?  (That just won't
> work with the new all-singing, all-dancing, Gnome 3.)  So there's the
> next RHEL with Gnome shot down in flames.
> 
> Likewise, the *average* home user faces the same quandary, and most
> people buy underpowered computers.  So that's Fedora out of the
> question.

I have an "underpowered" computer running integrated Intel graphics
(read: the cheapest of the cheap). The open-source Intel drivers work
just fine with Gnome 3/Gnome Shell. (Actually, I have more trouble with
the NEWER Intel cards, like those on the Sandy Bridge architecture).

Despite how flashy things look, the Gnome folks did a really quite
impressive job of limiting the hardware requirements to a very
reasonable set of 3D functions that should be present on most machines
built in the last four years at least.
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