Phoronix on ATI in ‘05
Phoronix has posted an ATI retrospective for the past year:
As 2005 comes to an end, both NVIDIA and ATI have fought a competitive battle not only when it comes to their hardware lineup but also display drivers for alternative operating systems. When discussing this subject matter, GNU/Linux users have been quick to criticize ATI Technologies whether it is due to poor installation support, distribution compatibility, rudimentary control panel, or simply the performance level of its drivers. On the contrary, even though NVIDIA had unveiled its GeForce 7 series, 2005 has not been the best year for the green developers.
December 28th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Criticizing ATI for poor “distribution compatibility” seems excessive - their installer actually manages to build quite a wide array of packages. Meanwhile the nVidia driver just loses track of XVideo after a while. On the other hand, ATI have stated that suspend/resume works in the release notes at least three times iirc, and it has never been true.
December 28th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Yeah,
the fact that ATI is a BedBuddy(tm R (c) patent pending) of the evil empire is enough for me to buy nvidia or matrox or xgi or powervr.
December 29th, 2005 at 10:19 am
Phoronix has now posted a NVIDIA variant:
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=5440
December 30th, 2005 at 6:23 am
So…NVIDIA’s drivers at the start were good and much better than ATI’s. ATI’s drivers were crap at the start of 2005. ATI’s drivers have improved, but at the end of 2005, they’re still less performant than NVIDIA’s and still have a considerable number of issues. Thus, ATI has had a good 2005! Wait, there’s something wrong with that logic…
December 31st, 2005 at 12:41 am
since linux doesn’t have
http://www.mojomastergame.com/