That's what I probably would do if i'd buy a new card. But I don't agree that you can't use the recent software (kernels, Xfree in this case) with older hardware.
For example I run debian testing on an PII 233 right now. *Insert your debian is ancient joke here* I am very happy with debian.
I think that support maybe ok for now, but what if your hardware ages,and it's no longer comercially interesting for nvidia to support you on what ever version of the kernel you like to use at that date. That means you are dependent on Nvidia for choosing a kernel. This won't happen with open drivers.
I wonder what impact that would have on the relation between firebird and interbase. They might become incompatible, cause MS is no fan of open source.
I measured the number of watts my computer is using. I found that when the processor is at maximum it consumes 20 watts of energy more than when it is idle. This was without any power management.
So in my case, and I suspect many other cases running seti@home causes global warming.
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That's what I probably would do if i'd buy a new card. But I don't agree that you can't use the recent software (kernels, Xfree in this case) with older hardware. For example I run debian testing on an PII 233 right now. *Insert your debian is ancient joke here* I am very happy with debian.
I think that support maybe ok for now, but what if your hardware ages,and it's no longer comercially interesting for nvidia to support you on what ever version of the kernel you like to use at that date. That means you are dependent on Nvidia for choosing a kernel. This won't happen with open drivers.
I wonder what impact that would have on the relation between firebird and interbase. They might become incompatible, cause MS is no fan of open source.
I measured the number of watts my computer is using. I found that when the processor is at maximum it consumes 20 watts of energy more than when it is idle. This was without any power management. So in my case, and I suspect many other cases running seti@home causes global warming.
For everybody who played star control 2 this question is already answered long ago :)
Rembo.