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DRI Comes to DirectFB

Posted by michael on from the choices-are-better dept.

Pivot writes "To further heat up the discussion about the future of the graphical desktop on open source OSes: Now the DirectFB project works with DRI!. Screenshots are available. I guess what is lacking now is only XAA driver support, or native drivers for your favourite graphic card." We've mentioned DirectFB before.

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  1. Me too! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
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  2. Gotta get my eyes checked... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I read that as "DRI Comes to DirectFBI", and just couldn't understand what DirectFBI is... DirectSound, DirectX, DirectFeds?!

    1. Re:Gotta get my eyes checked... by jdgeorge · · Score: 2, Funny

      I read that as "DRI Comes to DirectFBI", and just couldn't understand what DirectFBI is... DirectSound, DirectX, DirectFeds?!

      Ahem....
      DirectFBI's communication protocol is FedX.

  3. Dirty Rotten Imbecilles? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Skate or die, dude!

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  5. Come on, I have to try... by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 5, Funny
    Fellow Americans! I have a message for you, that you should all heed. It should be noted that thanks to the evils of the DCMA and M$ Palladium, using the kernel to display graphics poses a grave threat to our freedoms, which were so vigourously defended by our brave soldiers in Iraq (unless you are one of those cheese eating surrender monkeys, the french *spits*).

    You see, this is not a new nor innvoative technique! M$ also has some graphics in kernel - this is what allows them to pander to the MPAA/RIAA when they demand unbreakable DRM. They is almost certainly patented as a result! Do you want to be sued for playing MP3s with DeCSS on Linux? NO! There is only one choice - just say no to having your multimedia use the kernel... just say no to DRM!

    DirectFB puts our freedoms at risk my fellow Americans, because the government assumes that all P2P users are terrorists, as opposed to freedom loving consumerists who merely wish to try before they buy. Everybody knows that piracy isn't theft - how could it be, when most pirates wouldn't have even bought a copy anyway?

    So you see, if people use DirectFB you don't only lose network transparency (who uses that anyway?) - you lose something far more important - your FREEDOM. With X, at least you can swap out XFree for another server, becuase being BSD licensed means it is truly Free, unlike that pinko commie Linux kernel.

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  6. So, what? by cdemon6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's fork XFree, merge it magically with DireectFB and produce a lightweight X-windows brother...

    Then, let us call it DirectX. :)