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WMD:
Yeah, I'll admit that GDI usually outpaces X11 due to kernel mode. But it really doesn't have to run there anymore...I mean, when NT first came out, it was for 486s.
Aloone_Jonez:
Why would there be an advantage with separating GDI from the kernel?
If was separated from the kernel and it crashed what would happen?
Surly it would take out all graphical programs and as NT is mostly grahical anyway you'd loose anything worth while.
microchip:
THIS IS STINKIN" AWESOME!!!
SWEET!
ksym:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I've just realised what you meant, Windows is silly for running its Windowing system in kernel mode while the UNIX X-window system runs in user mode.
Well I can see your point but Windows NT is a purely graphical OS, it doesn't have a text mode like UNIX does. When X crashes under Linux it's just as bad as it takes out all X programs ie OpenOffice so still I loose my work anyway, though this has only happened to me on Redhat 9.0 though.
--- End quote ---
Hmm. What about my Linux with nVidia graphics driver?
AFAIK, the nvidia x-subsystem is in two parts:
1) userland component, TLS links that make the
"nvidia" x-driver
2) kernel component, the 'nvidia' kernel module,
which is either modprobed when X starts, or manually
loaded before X.
So does this mean that the driver component actually
runs in "ring 0", while X-server
(and the nvidia's TLS component) itself runs in usermode?
And doesn't this make my Linux-box as unstable as
as the nvidia-kernel module is?
MrX:
remember when kintaro got IE to work in Linux? well he should test IE from inside that and see if something crashes
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