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I played few months with Simply Mepis distroes and with Mandriva and i can say that this distroes are excellent.I runned them on a VIA mobo(KT 333+VT 8235)and they worked excellent in conjunction with an Nvidia card.
I find somehow strange that VIA video chips are not able to rander properlly in an Open GL accelerated environment.
If VIA cant manage to do some proper drivers than they shoould release some info towards the Linux comunity.
VIA is no more a vendor that is in the position to dictate what customers should use because latelly they relly on low end profits that relly on people with lower revenues.This means that support for free operating systems like LINUX distroes should be necessary and a must.
Loosing another market slice like they did in mobo chipsets bussiness will render them dead.
Anyway if you really want to use Linux accelerated interface use Nvidia.
Lets hope VIA will manage to release proper drivers because on Windows platforms they are able to make good ,stable drivers.
I agree with the fact that if on a box is written "works with Linux" should work,if it doesnt sue them.