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Pantso:
I don't know if this has been posted before, but if it has forgive me for doubleposting in advance. Now, to my question: has any of you guys ever used a commercial X server like Metro-X or Accelerated-X? If you have, what were your opinions on either or both of them?

Siplus:
erm....what is the point of a comercial Xserver? i thought the whole point of creating stuff for a free operating system is to make it free...hmm

voidmain:
I had used MetroX several years ago and it was pretty good. The main advantage was it had accelerated drivers for many popular high end graphics cards. Now that many of the card developers are distributing their own accelerated drivers I see less need for the commercial X servers. The other thing was MetroX had a fool proof setup utility for X.

Pantso:
I agree that the Xfree86 server should work fine for most Linux users. However, the Xfree86 graphics drivers don't usually work well with modern accelerated graphics cards or chips. On the contrary, support for some chipsets is still limited and those that do work, usually have very poor performance and no OpenGL capabilities, which is the case for most modern laptops or portable computers. Now, I also agree to the fact that Xfree86 is free and comes bundled in every Linux distro but what if someone wants to fully utilize their graphics card or chipset's potentials?

Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by void main:
Now that many of the card developers are distributing their own accelerated drivers I see less need for the commercial X servers.
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I agree with that, since most people nowadays use Geforce cards that provide excellent drivers for Linux but what about those laptop users that have to deal with Trident or SiS chipsets and so on?

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