Umm, blender works the same speed on my G400 using hardware acceleration as it did when i was using a CLGD5465(no 3D), on the same machine.
Blender quite definatly uses its own renderer, not the openGL one. The openGL is just for pre-displaying things.
The running of programs has nothing to do with the fact that different versions of linux are forks, they all use the *same* librarys. The problem is linux librarys are being developed alot faster than BSD's.
The BSD people stick with the "tried and true" librarys that work, and work they do, but they dont get all the new features that revamping those librarys can bring. Maybee you dont want those features, good, stick with BSD.
For those of us that like new features, we will stick with linux, and its ever expanding set of features. The programs that tend to "not work across distributions" are those compiled with the higher level API stuff anyways. Core API's all stay the same and are very compatable across
distributions.
Maybee we should call distributions what they truly are, OS's with different versions of the exact same librarys, except that would be a crappy name, so howabout we call them distributions . . .
the difference is the ARM box wouldn't have run the OS of choice for most of the customers for this product. The reason the crusoe is considered 'better' than an ARM processor(in overall terms for end user stuff) is because it appears an X86 chip to everything. Without all the technical stuff, to the end user it can be considered a low power X86 chip, and they can still run all their off the shelf software.
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made perfect sense to me..its only just past 3pm
Umm, blender works the same speed on my G400 using hardware acceleration as it did when i was using a CLGD5465(no 3D), on the same machine. Blender quite definatly uses its own renderer, not the openGL one. The openGL is just for pre-displaying things.
The running of programs has nothing to do with the fact that different versions of linux are forks, they all use the *same* librarys. The problem is linux librarys are being developed alot faster than BSD's.
The BSD people stick with the "tried and true" librarys that work, and work they do, but they dont get all the new features that revamping those librarys can bring. Maybee you dont want those features, good, stick with BSD.
For those of us that like new features, we will stick with linux, and its ever expanding set of features. The programs that tend to "not work across distributions" are those compiled with the higher level API stuff anyways. Core API's all stay the same and are very compatable across
distributions.
Maybee we should call distributions what they truly are, OS's with different versions of the exact same librarys, except that would be a crappy name, so howabout we call them distributions . . .
the difference is the ARM box wouldn't have run the OS of choice for most of the customers for this product. The reason the crusoe is considered 'better' than an ARM processor(in overall terms for end user stuff) is because it appears an X86 chip to everything. Without all the technical stuff, to the end user it can be considered a low power X86 chip, and they can still run all their off the shelf software.