New Mesa/Nouveau brings support for Fermi cards to AROS!

[commodorejohn]

:/ All this work on the latest-and-greatest nVidia cards and nouveau still doesn't have quality drivers for chipsets that have been around forever...

[commodorejohn]

You are missing the point. Most people wanting to run AROS on PC will tend to have newer, not older equipment.

Well good for them. Meanwhile, I'm stuck choosing between getting a big-ass 15" Powerbook that I know will work for non-OSX purposes because it has a Radeon chipset, and getting a more manageable 12" one that I think will work, but it has a GeForce 5200 and I'm hearing mixed things about nouveau's support for that GPU. Old hardware doesn't just vanish into the aether, and some of us would actually like to make use of it.

[commodorejohn]

How can you pretend to live with 10-years old sw/hw technologies forever in a similar market?

Who's pretending? I've been living with outdated machines for a long time now. The newest thing I own is my Eee, which is coming up on three years old (four since the model's release, IIRC) and was underpowered even then. It suits my needs beautifully. I have a Power Mac G5, that has way more horsepower than I need, and it works just fine for me. Not all of us feel the compulsion to keep up with the absolute latest and greatest.