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Linux Support Fades For 3Dfx Voodoo, Rage 128, VIA

Posted by timothy on from the this-way-to-the-ice-floe-folks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The developers behind the Mesa 3D graphics library, which provides the default graphics driver support for most hardware on Linux (and BSD/Solaris), has ended their support for older hardware. Being removed from Mesa (and therefore versions of Linux distributions) is support for hardware like the 3Dfx Voodoo, Intel i810, ATI Rage, and S3 Savage graphics processors. Also drivers being dropped were for Matrox and VIA graphics. Mesa developers also decided it's time to end support for the BeOS operating system. Dropping this code lowered the developers' responsibility by some 100k L.O.C., so maybe we will see GL3 support and OpenCL in Linux a bit sooner."

3 of 330 comments (clear)

  1. famous last words of a programmer by decora · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Seems like it should require almost no effort."

  2. Re:...And? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    > The developer needs to fulfil the requirements of the client. It is not the developer's place to dictate the requirements to the client.

    Here's your refund.

  3. Re:A fork for old machines by Lanteran · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rant please :)

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    "People don't want to learn linux" hasn't been a valid excuse since '03.