the age old 3D hardware question

[Bruce Cran]

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> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:
>
>> On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>>> I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in
>>>> 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options
>>>> for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite 
>>>> minimal,
>>>> I'm not running any games.
>>>
>>> you actually need 3D accelerator or just fast 2D card?
>>>
>>> if second - buy for <<50$ (or get for free) used computer, lowest end
>>> pentium will suffice, plug good PCI graphics in it, and make an X 
>>> terminal
>>> to connect to your high-speed computer.
>>>
>>> there is one more adventage of it - you may connect more than one :)
>>
>> Unfortunately, yeah, I do need 3D acceleration. I'm not running any 
>> games
>> but I am doing some OpenGL development (should've said that in the first
>> place, really).
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> afaik openGL always requires local display

I would guess the development and testing will be done on the same 
machine.  

-- 
Bruce