[Xorg] DRI merging

Franco Catrin L. fcatrin at tuxpan.com
Mon Jun 14 13:03:30 PDT 2004


El lun, 14-06-2004 a las 15:48, Jeremy C. Reed escribió:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Peter Postmus wrote:
> 
> > I do agree with John Smirl that, if Linux won't have a comparable GUI to
> > Windows Longhorn by the time it's released, many users that have converted
> > from Windows to Linux in the past, will convert to Longhorn again. I also
> 
> I am a non-Windows user. What is so great about this "Longhorn" that would
> convince someone to switch to it?
> 
> I already read the posting indicating significant X performance
> improvement. So Longhorn will have a quicker display? For my needs, my old
> video cards running X seem good enough.

Longhorn will have a different display architecture than current Windows
machines. Some sort of MacOSX type of display architecture, but with
display state "on the server".

Check this out:

http://www.eightypercent.net/Archive/2004/05/18.html#a185


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