Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: replacing X Window System ! | From | Thierry Vignaud <> | Date | Thu, 18 May 2006 20:52:31 +0200 |
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linux cbon <linuxcbon@yahoo.fr> writes:
> Why dont we have "good" 3D support in X ?
no documentation how to program nvidia 3d chips? or for the very latest ati chips? or from the XYZ vendor? ....
> > Also, please tell why this would be faster, simpler, or easier to > > manage. Stuff in the kernel is generally harder to manage than > > userspace stuff, and definitely not simpler. Kernel code lives > > with all sorts of requirements and limitations that an application > > programmer would hate to have to worry about. > > Put X in the kernel, so we dont have 7924 bad written > incompatible implementations of it.
no, we now have 7924 kernels that have to implement each of these drivers (linux, *bsd, other unices, macos x, ...) ow! how do we do with macos x? or on windows? no more X? (though i don't really care but...)
> In my opinion, graphics do belong to the OS, like > sound, network and file system.
"belong to the OS" != "belong in the kernel" and where do you put the boundary of the OS? most people don't say that the OS is only the kernel...
> > How to improve/replace X : > http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xarch_ols2004/xarch-ols2004-html/ > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/teaching/projects/Distinguished03/MarkThomas.pdf
like if xorg wasn't trying to improve x11 status (slowly trying to isolate priviliged stuff, introducing xcb, ...)
> What is your opinion ?
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