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New X Proposal on Freedesktop.org

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the one-for-the-techies dept.

Bytal writes "Havoc Pennington (of Red Hat and GNOME fame) seems to have a very interesting entry in his blog on the development of a new extension to the venerable X server going on at freedesktop.org. More specifically it seems to provide for most things that people have clamoring for (alpha blending, flicker-free window compositing and switching, as well as even OpenGL integration) without altering the existing X protocol too much."

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  3. Students, behold by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I do NOT understand the bizarre Linux mindset of refusing to listen to users just because they're not programming an alternative project.
    What you are witnessing here is the ancient and venerable straw man argument. It seems that this Overly Critical Guy is the master of such specious arguments, so learn well, my students! If you are to avoid fallacious arguments, you would do well to study his technique.