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From: tero.narinen@lut.fi (Tero Narinen)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 15:35:04 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology
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In article <sy91br6t0d.fsf@tiktok.cygnus.com>, meissner@cygnus.com (Michael Meissner) wrote:
>In article <4u956q$kuo@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> bonak@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Esmail
>Bonakdarian) writes:
>
>| So what's the problem with Matrox? I've heard that it would be wise to
>| avoid Diamond cards too, is this correct?
>
>The problem is Matrox has decided not to give out programming details of the
>card so that the free X server (XFree86) can support it. There are two X
>servers that do support it (MetroX and X inside) for about $100. What people
>are arguing is whether you should support somebody by buying their hardware, if
>they don't support free software.
That $100 sound quite much to me. Here in Finland you can buy RedHat
Bundle with metro-X server for less than $60 and that gives you
matrox-support, RedHat Picasso, 200-page RedHat manual. The price for
Infomagic bundle is quite same but it comes with Xfree. If you have to pay
$100 for X-server maybe I should give you a few addresses for cheaper sellers.
Just my 0.02$.
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