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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. W.O.O.T by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Developers: X comes to Y, with full Z support. Acronym, vague reference to my mother, link. Acronym, link to previous (dupe) post, acronym. Rinse and repeat, unrelated Microsoft insult.

  2. Now all we need is a better OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Rather than one that has to have sectiones recompiled to work nicely with different hardware that is

    1. Re:Now all we need is a better OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Loadable modules don't mean dick if you don't have a well defined API and a stable ABI for the kernel. Which Linux still does not have.

      Its very nice that you can recompile your drivers from source. Its not very nice that someone has to keep back/forward porting drivers to various kernel versions, and binary drivers only sometimes work. Other Operating Systems got this right decades ago, yet Linux is still stuck with the same old problems.

  3. 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.

  4. Re:X and networking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It doesn't change the fact that X still has the crappy, bloated and slow client/server split. -- it is this that slows everything up, including further development.