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ATI's Radeon Linux drivers no longer supported?
SuperBug writes "After viewing the previous story on Slashdot about the Radeon 9800 vs GF FX 5900, I checked out ATI's web-site which seems to have been re-designed relatively recently. It seems strikingly similar to nVidia's site regarding the driver selections. I thought "great, ths should be much better to find my drivers now. At least a little simpler." To my surprise. I found this message for Linux Graphics Drivers "Not Supported". Thinking this had to be a mistake, I took a look at the "Discontinued Products" list under the customer care link and lo and behold. Just about every recent card is there. I just wanna know, what gives?"
Ati must be another company in MS back pocket. The money they make on Linux customers, MS can cover easily. Keeping thier windoz monopoly going. If your a windoz user and you buy a Ati card and later want to switch to Linux and find out that the Linux drives suck for your New Ati card and it makes it look like that Linux sucks. When in fact it's just Ati copping out to MS. I have an Ati Rage Fury and 3 different Ati Radeons. The driver for Linux stink. That why I refuse to buy any more Ati's untill I see driver support for existing card's not just the highly expensive ones. The idea the their older card are a trade secert is BS because who in Hell would want to clone a older card when the newest one your selling are more advanced. I say boycott Ati untill they come around and give full support for they Linux communty just like Nvidia has.