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First Xouvert Milestone Released

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-rock-your-world dept.

An anonymous reader writes " The first milestone of xouvert, the X-server replacement has been released. Xouvert includes MAS giving the X server its very own sound server. Nice. :) Also, just noticed that enlightenment quietly released an update to the 0.16 series. " (Here's a link to the Xouvert download page.)

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  1. Xouvert is... by roalt · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the non-french speaking under you: Xouvert means "X open".

  2. Re:What the Linux and BSD world really needs... by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 5, Informative

    Already in progress at Freedesktop.org, thanks to the awesome Keith Packard. There's Cairo for vector graphics rendering and some unnamed project for double buffered/transparent/warpable windows (and yes there are screenshots, click the link!). Freedesktop.org is rapidly becoming host to many projects that are innovating in the Linux desktop arena. Check out some of the other software hosted there. Of particular interest (to me at least) is D-BUS combined with HAL.

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  3. Please mod parent DOWN. by reality-bytes · · Score: 5, Informative

    As said before this guy appears *not* to be a Dev on the Xouvert project.

    Have a read through some of his previous posts on other topics.

    Thanks.

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  4. Re:The things people complain about X... by SQLz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, you could have read the Xouvert FAQ before posting to educate yourself on what they actually plan on improving. That way, you wound't sound like you have no idea what you are talking about. Anyway, from the FAQ:

    2.5) So why is X so slow on my machine if not for network transparency?

    Yes, XFree86 /can/ be slow, especially on uniprocessor machines, but network transparency is NOT at fault. More common culprits appear to be toolkits, video drivers, and font rendering/render. Render really needs to DMA driven. Right now it pulls bits from the framebuffer using the CPU which with PCI is abysmally slow.