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I am fine with Xi's product, in fact, I called and had mine shipped early. 3D Accelerated-X uses a kernel module that supports a few standard GART interfaces (Intel, VIA, ...) and uses a character device (/dev/xsvc i think). The product gives me better frame rates in Q3A than the latest S3 reference drivers for my Savage4 GT/Pro. It uses SGI Licensed OpenGL 1.1.1, unlike the Mesa Project's OGL-like API. Trust me, when it comes right down to it, Mesa is still crap. Also, the $250 price is /extremely/ cheap for a product of this quality, the companies I have worked with pay $12k for their SGI workstation implementations. The 3D Accelerated-X would probably cost this much if they had paid for the OpenGL conformance tests. Xi cannot be expected to support every card on the market, they will have a licensing problem. The nvidia, 3dfx, matrox, and ati drivers are all GPL/open source. If they release open source and closed source drivers in their product, they will slaughter that beautiful code. And for all of you kiddies saying stuff about linux going big and companies releasing commercial software, check out Xi's page, they've been around for a while.
I have been a linux user since RHL 1.0 in 1991, and I really hate to see linux go down the drain. With such hateful users it _will_ do this, so please hold down the flames, linux is gonna keep goin without all the immature children sending bitch letters to Mr. Dvorak... ;)