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I've been nosing around in various threads, and I keep seeing a lot of info by Tytus about upping machine specs and such, and blaming a lot of latency on the MS network stack and inefficient game programming. Everything I've seen as far as tech specs show the tests were run on Windows. Well, contrary to popular belief, you can game on Linux, with some effort (Cedega is making it pretty easy actually, nowadays). So I guess my questions are...
1) Do you even plan to release drivers for Linux?
2) Have any tests been done to show improvement over the Linux network stack?
I'm not really a hardcore gamer, but this card intrigues me on so many levels (as a gamer, and an academic - I'm almost finished with an Associate's in High Performance Computing). In distributed computing, the greatest bottleneck faced is in the network. Making use of an affordable (compared to something like fiber or Infiniband) solution to speed up communications between clients could really help bring the costs down for someone needing power on a budget (my tech school has to plead with research institutions to give us time on their clusters because we can't afford to field a decent one).
I run an Opteron 170, 2 Gigs of DDR400 OCZ RAM, eVGA GeForce 7900 GT KO, and a SATA Seagate Barracuda, dual booting with Server 03 and Gentoo Linux. Not outstanding specs, but I built it to hold up for several years without needing many upgrades. Between me and the cable modem I run through a router with NAT (no reasonable choice with three other machines and a server running), and I come in at about 200ms assuming no server lag on my WoW client.
This card holds a lot of promise as a 'toy' that I can explore (who doesn't love embedded processors!?) and as a useful piece of equipment to really enhance my gaming experience. I'd just hate for it to remain a Windows-world only toy (learn from ATI - support Linux!  )
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ELN Board Member, Bigfoot Networks CEO
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Yes, we will be releasing Linux Host Drivers (very very soon after launch)
My engineers are all linux gurus and demand it of us!
The Linux networks stack is highly optimized, but could absolutely benefit from Killer: how much, we don't know yet...
by the way, we've had it up on Linux Hosts already, but the drivers are very immature. (so it won't take but a few weeks/ maybe a few months till Linux drivers are ready).
Tytus
p.s. as for gaming on Linux: yep people do it... but I think they also host a lot of servers: so we're looking at that too!
Thanks for posting, and KEEP COMPLAINING ABOUT LAG! 
Tytus
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[ELN]Tytus - EndLagNow.ORG
Member of the Board of Directors of ELN
CEO + Mad Scientist of Bigfoot Networks, Inc.
http://www.bigfootnetworks.com
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| Awesome! Thanks for the info. I'll keep a lookout for more info at a later date.
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