Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Pekka Pietik{inen) | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:45:15 +0300 | Subject | Re: SVGA kernel chipset drivers. |
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On Jun 6, 1:14am, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Here's my ramblings on the topic. I'd ignore them if I were you -- you > must be bored with this thread by now. Well, I read them anyway :) This thread doesn't belong in linux-kernel though, is there a better place for it? > Lots of people don't use X, because it uses lots of memory (only a > problem for small machines), and because some people don't like it. I > personally don't use X except when I have to, simply because, with my > low-quality monitor, it gives me eye strain and a headache. (Guaranteed, > after a couple of hours). Text mode is fine. Thus I would very much > dislike being forced to use the X GUI to spawn graphics programs. IMHO the best option would be a XFree86 Lite (and a normal one that people with lots of memory could use) There are a lot of completely unused (for most people that is) extensions and support for zillions of boards in the current X servers. XFree86 should be changed to do something like AccelX, which has the drivers for the boards as modules it loads on the fly.
Improving XFree86 like this instead of a linux-only solution like GGI would benefit the other free x86 *nixes as well.
There should also be a fullscreen program running on top of X that would behave and look just like the current text-mode, VC's etc. (with some extensions that are not possible in text-mode). The same program would work on any other box running X, so we could all enjoy the nice textmode linux has on every machine we use ;) (and those who like X, like I do, could continue using it with all the extensions and bloat)
-- Pekka Pietik{inen, Net People Ltd., Oulu, Finland
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