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[Eric Dunbar]

Chances are they don't support all the flavours of Linux b/c

... enterprise users don't exactly have need for the latest and
greatest video hardware (how fast does a screen refresh in OpenOffice
really need to run?), and,
... many Linux users run _old_ hardware so they're not likely to be
buying the latest and greatest video cards, and,
... most software that taxes these latest and greatest cards <ahem,
games> are written for Mac OS X or Windows XP anyway so a pure Linux
user isn't going to be running out and buying a video card anyway :-(,
and,
... for simple use (i.e. word processing, web browsing, etc.) most
distros have already developed solutions so why would these
manufacturers bother to devote scarce R&D funds to a segment of the
overall market that is downright _tiny_

Eric.

On 12/29/05, James Diehl <jms_diehl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> A lot of the manufacturers don't support Linux.  I thought maybe it was the
> other way around myself.  I've been to ATI Radeon, Nividia, Lexmark, and
> many others and they all say the same thing:  "We don't support Linux
> programs."  With all of the diffferent Linux OS's that are available, and
> Unix systems(including all of the Enterprise versions being run by company
> networks), you would think it would be profitable for them to support our
> programs.