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If I was selling software to defense companies I'd support IE6. If I was selling software to primary school teachers I'd support 800x600. If I was selling tec

If I was selling software to defense companies I'd support IE6. If I was selling software to primary school teachers I'd support 800x600. If I was selling technology to engineers (especially CUDA types building render farms of thousands of nodes) you can bet your life I'd support Ubuntu. I wouldn't want to give them any reasons at all not to use my stuff everywhere, in case I accidentally opened a niche my competitor could dominate and expand from. These days games are just a part of Nvidia's market.

mikebike 16y ago
None of the mechanical engineering packages (finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics) I've encountered explicitly support Ubuntu. Typically, it's RHEL that is explicitly supported.
- krschultz 16y ago
  But their driver doesn't have to support Ubuntu, Ubuntu is taking advantage of their driver's OpenGL capability. So the better the Nvidia OpenGL driver, the better Ubuntu will run on it. It shouldn't really matter RHEL or Ubuntu so long as the driver has good OpenGL performance.
  - krakensden 16y ago
    It's more complicated than that- the driver has to support the new KMS driver architecture, where the kernel is in charge of setting up the display and doing draw operations, which the X server used to handle. (Which was why before, you could only have 1 instance of X11 and OpenGL, and switching between virtual terminals took so long) So Wayland won't run on nVidia's (fast) drivers, because they still use the old model where X was in charge of the graphics card.
niels_olson 16y ago
As a military consumer of defense industry products, please, for the love of humanity, do not support IE6. Even NMCI, AHLTA, and SPAWAR now support at least IE7. A fair chunk of the Army and Air Force are now Vista and Win7. As the father of 8 and 5 year-olds, please don't support 800x600. Even in New Orleans after the storm, with my wife working in the public schools, I didn't see any 800x600 displays.
- loboman 16y ago
  Even in New Orleans after the storm, with my wife working in the public schools, I didn't see any 800x600 displays. That, in the US. I think it's different in other countries.
GFischer 16y ago
25% of the users at my company's website (largest private insurer in my country) have an 800x600 resolution. About 50% have 1024x768. Of the remainder, a significant number have 1024x600 resolution. It's a 3rd world country, so tech adoption is significantly slower, but you have to consider that not all sites have the same readership (in this case, we have people that still consider typewriters to be acceptable tech).

mikebike 16y ago

None of the mechanical engineering packages (finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics) I've encountered explicitly support Ubuntu. Typically, it's RHEL that is explicitly supported.

krschultz 16y ago
But their driver doesn't have to support Ubuntu, Ubuntu is taking advantage of their driver's OpenGL capability. So the better the Nvidia OpenGL driver, the better Ubuntu will run on it. It shouldn't really matter RHEL or Ubuntu so long as the driver has good OpenGL performance.
- krakensden 16y ago
  It's more complicated than that- the driver has to support the new KMS driver architecture, where the kernel is in charge of setting up the display and doing draw operations, which the X server used to handle. (Which was why before, you could only have 1 instance of X11 and OpenGL, and switching between virtual terminals took so long) So Wayland won't run on nVidia's (fast) drivers, because they still use the old model where X was in charge of the graphics card.

niels_olson 16y ago

As a military consumer of defense industry products, please, for the love of humanity, do not support IE6. Even NMCI, AHLTA, and SPAWAR now support at least IE7. A fair chunk of the Army and Air Force are now Vista and Win7. As the father of 8 and 5 year-olds, please don't support 800x600. Even in New Orleans after the storm, with my wife working in the public schools, I didn't see any 800x600 displays.

loboman 16y ago
Even in New Orleans after the storm, with my wife working in the public schools, I didn't see any 800x600 displays. That, in the US. I think it's different in other countries.

GFischer 16y ago

25% of the users at my company's website (largest private insurer in my country) have an 800x600 resolution. About 50% have 1024x768. Of the remainder, a significant number have 1024x600 resolution. It's a 3rd world country, so tech adoption is significantly slower, but you have to consider that not all sites have the same readership (in this case, we have people that still consider typewriters to be acceptable tech).