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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. Re:Now all we need is a better OS by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Loadable modules are nice. The seem to keep complaining if the driver version differs from the kernel version.

    2. If I want to write a third party GPLed driver for windows, then I can. Most people don't need to and so they don't bother.

    3. I suggest proper coffee. Make sure it's freshly ground.

    Troll mode off, if I did decide to write a kernel, I'd probably write something very different from Linux. Aspects of it are quite good, especially the support for obscure filesystems, but really adding drivers is rather unpleasant. Somehow BeOS makes life seem so much easier. Just drag and drop. Things just work.

  2. Re:Sweet! by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good thing you used your karma bonus modifier to post that.

    Typically anything ending with "...oh wait" is junk.

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    "Sufferin' succotash."