ATI or nVidia

[Rashkae]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
>> I am planning to use compiz-fusion with Gutsy, and surely GoogleEarth,
>> also maybe openArena :)
> 
> If you are not into gaming, get an Intel onboard chip. It is plenty fast
> enough for compiz and GEarth, dunno about openArena (or what it is).
> 
> Intel has open-sourced the drivers a long time ago, which is something
> both nVidia and ATi have yet to do.
> 
> 

This is true, though it should be pointed out the new chip (Something 
3000?) used on the G965 platform, the drivers included in Feisty are 
horrendously buggy  (haven't tested with Gutsy yet).. I ended up putting 
  in a cheap Nvidia just to get a stable platform for a gui enabled server.