Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Dave Neary wrote:
> (To allay fears of hardware compat issues)
>  - Draw up a list of graphics cards used in desktop hardware in the past
> 3 to 5 years, ordered by market share/volume of sales, and match that to
> current compatibility of free software drivers for the hardware with the
> 3D requirements of Clutter. Ideally, someone with a GNOME 2.x desktop
> should be able to run a command, get a chipset, and be able to tell
> before he installs how well GNOME 3 will work.

I found this:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

Which is a list of currently commercially available graphics cards

This list doesn't cover all the SIS, Via, S3 or Matrox cards that are
still out in the wild, but it's a list that probably covers >99% of
shipped desktops, laptops and nettops.

And this: http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/Drivers - which is a list of
Xorg drivers.

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org