NVidia Graphics Cards in Linux
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As a general note, nVidia has been relatively supportive of the Linux community, offering closed source drivers for years. This is in sharp contrast to ATI, who for example had (IIRC) a 2 year lag in offering 64-bit linux drivers. So as someone who has used both cards in the past, their is no competition... if you're running Linux, do your best to get your laptop shipped with an nVidia card.
[edit] Open Source Drivers
The 'nv' modeule is standard with any recent distribution.
[edit] nVidia Closed Source Drivers
- 3D acceleration
- http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
NB: you'll avoid a lot of problems if you can install this driver through a distribution repositery rather than direct from nVidia.
- Fedora -- from the livna.org repository.
