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The revolution begins...
hm_murdock:
quote:You know, Jimmy, I remember only months ago (actually, close to when I registered) you were ranting about "the fact" that X11 sucked. Have you changed your opinion, and if so, why?
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because nearly all of my issues with it have been addressed! X.org is a great improvement over xfree86, and the work done on Metisse and Looking Glass brings us a next-generation display layer that keeps X11 compatibility.
WMD:
Isn't the current X.Org just a fork of XFree86 4.4? AFAIK they didn't change all that much. The only change I know of was fixing a bug in the nv driver so that the FX5700 worked. :D
Refalm:
quote:WMD: Isn't the current X.Org just a fork of XFree86 4.4? AFAIK they didn't change all that much. The only change I know of was fixing a bug in the nv driver so that the FX5700 worked. :D
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X.org is better. It doesn't contain any bugs, and xorg.conf is far superiour to XFree86 one (I forgot the name, because of my trauma with it). And, because it doesn't conflict with GPL, distributions can bring it out any time they want. Everyone should switch to it, and leave XFree86 to die.
Aloone_Jonez:
This looks cool.
Almost too cool.
I hope it's not too bloated, what are the minimum hardware requirements?
[ July 18, 2004: Message edited by: Aloone ]
hm_murdock:
we're looking at base install being somewhere around 300-400MB I think
other reqs, I think you'll be able to use any 3D accelerator card with Metisse. Will plans on making it "smart", so that on lesser hardware, it will automatically scale back. on the lowest-end stuff, I think we'll just use X.org without metisse.
we plan on adding some basic skinning to GNUstep so that we can have a slightly updated look. nothing as drastic as the difference between OPENSTEP and Aqua, though
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