Xabre Graphics Card Reviewed

Daniel Rutter writes: "Graphics cards using the SIS Xabre chipset don't seem to have quite made it to the retail market in most of the world yet, but they're on sale now here in Australia. I've checked out Triplex's shiny XabrePRO card. It's weird. Not just because it's silver, in typical Triplex fashion. It's also got weird drivers. Not bad drivers. Just... weird. And it makes a weird noise. Seriously." Check out those screenshots, and wonder.

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Yeah, umm, how about X?

[Wee]

I read dansdata.com all the time and I like his site; it's one of the sites I check every few days. Dan's an enjoying read, and his heatsink reviews are second to none, IMHO. I even bought a remote control tank based on his review. But this review is incomplete.

Whenever I read a hardware review, I hit ctrl+f, type in "linux" and then hit enter -- first thing. If I see it jump down the page, I read the whole thing. If not, I hit spacebar to make the "not found" dialog go away and carry on with what I was doing. I can't buy hardware that doesn't support Linux, and so I have no time to read about hardware rewviews which only mention Windows. Would a hardcore Windows user care about a review of an iPod? Unless it mentioned something about the Win32 hacks, I doubt it. In fact, I could see some people actually feeling challenged if the review said "the iPod is Apple-only, but there are ways to get it running under Windows, although not for the faint of heart". Or whatever. I haven't read any iPod reviews, so I'm just guessing.

The thing might make tea and toast for me before I get up in the morning, but unless it can run under Linux, it's of zero use to me (as well as quite a few others here, I'd suspect). Normally, I'd have just gone about my business, and chalked the review up to yet another that doesn't mention Linux, which is no big deal at all. But since Dan was pimping his site on /., Linux (and *BSD, come to think of it) should have been mentioned. Lots of people here (40%?) run Windows, sure, but there ought to be a rule that when you self-submit a review you've done to Slashdot, you have to throw the other 60% of us a bone and at least see if you can dual boot or something. Win32 users can get information in hundreds of places. Users of alternative operating systems come here.

-B