Linux GPU Performance

CrzyP writes "AnandTech.com has benchmarked the most popular graphics cards from ATI and NVidia on the Linux OS (SuSE 9.1). It is interesting to see that they have also written a custom benchmarking tool which can also be downloaded from the article. Take a look at Kristopher Kubicki's "Linux 3D AGP GPU Roundup" to see how each of the mid to high end cards performed on the Penguin flavored system."

Comments

You can blame it on Mesa

[Anonymous Coward]

If it weren't for the spinless Mesa developer for switching away from LGPL licence at version 3.1 beta 2 just to please the incompetent xfree crew, we would have major companies contributing open codes, instead of having them taking stuff and releasing slower, buggy, proprietary drivers.

Remember ALSA? It sticks its gun to GPL right down to the driver, and Creative actually donate SBLive driver for it, when the company was already crushing everyone else (Aureal included) sound card market! This should be how Mesa license the code, not the lame, bogus, xfree licence.

Thanks to the moronic decisions of the Mesa team, it is too late to turn back now.

Re:Linux Gaming, In Summary

[Kethinov]

Which is why I believe the "desktop Linux" is doomed to fail, ultimately.

Uh, they got these great things called standards. When people unite behind them, stuff works better. Linux just needs more and better standards and it's getting better all the time. Quit singing the *BSD^H^H^H^H Linux is dying tune cause it just hasn't happened yet and it won't any time soon so long as it remains free, open, and organized.

I'd be more worried about its closed source corporate controlled counterparts. They could fail and/or cease development at ANY TIME should the company act accordingly. Quite frankly, using software controlled by a relatively small group of people doesn't sit well with a number of people. Using open source unrestricted software unencumbered by EULAs developed by millions worldwide just makes sense. Software as a corporate product is a flawed business model. That is, when you take anti competitive tactics out of the picture.

Look what capitalist American has done to the computer industry. Is this what Adam Smith had in mind when he wrote The Wealth of Nations?

Re:Totally off-topic, but need Linux advice....

[Ingolfke]

You're obviously new to /. (see I did the slashdot symbol so I'm l33t). My point is that, if you weren't new you would have known that you never have to be on topic here. Just draw some loose (and I use that word in the loosest sense) relationship between the topic you have a question about an the topic of discussion and you'll be right at home. For example if you have a question about how install bionics into your 3-month old baby using only spare parts from old Amiga you bought on e-bay, but the topic of discussion is "Microsoft evil Satan destroyer of souls or evil demonbeast destroyer of worlds?" you would lead in with something like this...

I hate Microsoft, and cannot stand Bill Gates, and oh-my-gosh do I love Linux, and you-guys, like, I've got a poster of Linus on my wall, and I have this 3-month old child who I want to install bionics into and I need to run linux on the kid, and I only have old Amiga parts. Has anyone done this before?

See... that's easy.

So to your question about which Linux version is the best version. This is very easy. Knoppix.

Many people will disagree with me, and they are all right, except for people who say:

Gentoo - It's dead. Like BSD dead.
Debian - It's stable, but smells funny... stale and pungent.
Suse - It's just Redhat, with a different name.
Redhat - Very popular, but owned by an evil corporation set on destroying the rainforests.
Slackware - Was the best prior to kernel version .7
Fedora - Think Redhat, but w/ a hint of the stink of Debian.
Knoppix - Meets all your needs. Easy installation. Don't mind the difficulty in getting persistant storage setup.
SCO Unix - It's like linux, but well I've heard there identical.

Whatever you choose make sure you talk alot about your cooling (say it's liquid cooled even if that just means you rest your beer on the case from time to time) and also brag that your going to setup a beowulf cluster of these someday soon. Once you get the baby setup w/ the bionics.

Don't let anyone tell you that BSD is an option. BSD is no longer being developed. The government was funding it, but quit, when they realized it was dead. Something about using old birth certificates or patents from the 50s. I don't know.

Anyways... I hope that helps.

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MOD UP TRUTH

[Ayanami Rei]

Seriously.

Why post anon?

Re:ATI vs nVidia

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

Theyre comparing the best NVidia has vs the best ATI has. Personally, I wish ATI had better drivers (including 64bit ones), but thats just me. I still wouldnt use them of course, as thats like buying windows 2k3-- It doesnt matter if a bad company finally makes something worth using, they're still a bad company. Knowing ATI, I'm just suprised they don't EOL their drivers for any kernel older than a week. On a related note, anyone else appreciate the performance enhancements NVidia's TNT2 cards get with the most current drivers? It's nice having a company actually support their customers.