Last year I bought an HD4870 for my new machine. For another machine that functions mainly as a server and plays movies on my tv as well I bought a HD3450. Both machines are running fine using Ubuntu 8.04, and at the moment I'm switching to Ubuntu 9.04 and so far it works fine. I don't have any reason to upgrade to a newer kernel, so I'm quite happy the way AMD drivers turn out. I even program my own OpenGL programs (OpenGL 3.0 that is) and they run fine on my AMD hardware.
I'm still hoping for more improvements of course, but I think my expectations are somewhat more realistic than those of other people around here. Of course I see that if you're a Fedora user things are a bit nasty. I think if AMD starts supporting Fedora officially, the monthly complaints will drop quite a bit.
But be honest... how many Linux users, are upgrading to a newer kernel than the one that is in their distro? I think this is a minority, so supporting Fedora (which does use a newer kernel) officially would help decrease the complaints a lot.
I'm still hoping for more improvements of course, but I think my expectations are somewhat more realistic than those of other people around here. Of course I see that if you're a Fedora user things are a bit nasty. I think if AMD starts supporting Fedora officially, the monthly complaints will drop quite a bit.
But be honest... how many Linux users, are upgrading to a newer kernel than the one that is in their distro? I think this is a minority, so supporting Fedora (which does use a newer kernel) officially would help decrease the complaints a lot.
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