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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:Here we go.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    So many people complain about X because so many people have problems with it. This isn't rocket science. X is shitty... X is slow... X is loaded with 1980s features that no-one uses while desperately needed stuff is ignored, or left on the back-burner for years.

    Plus, X is designed to be slow from the ground up with its crappy network transparency. Windows manages to do a better job by adding network use on top of a local system - it has lower bandwidth requirements and more stability. It's a pretty damning indictment of the rank incompetence on display in the X system.