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Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux
Bytal writes "Seth Nickel, a GNOME hacker, has an extensive treatment of the next generation Linux graphics technologies being worked on by Red Hat and others. For all those complaining about the current X-Windows/X.org server capabilities, things like 'Indiana Jones buttons that puff out smoothly animated clouds of smoke when you click on them,' 'Workspace switching effects so lavish they make Keynote jealous' and even the mundane 'Hardware accelerated PDF viewers' may be interesting."
BeOS *still* does it better and faster than any other OS out there.
Here's a little hint to the (future) OS coders out there:
Don't make it snazzy, make it *functional*, snazzy can come later.
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
You see, this is the difference between GNOME hackers and KDE hackers.
GNOME hackers put the work in where it belongs. KDE hackers shove everything into either QT or the KDE libraries... always ensuring their work is tied to TrollTech's (and SCO/Canopy) cashcow Qt.
KDE builds eye candy and a shitty, buggy and complicated desktop. GNOME has been quietly (and I do mean quietly, without all the slashdot hype that KDE gets) building an XP/Mac OSX rival the right way... from the bottom up and getting all the pieces in place.
Give us a call when you're willing to pay for quality products. Until then, you can continue to suck at the hind teat.
Life's harsh. That which is free will always, always suck.
You know, searching through every search engine and reading every website contradicts what you're posting and confirms the website I linked to.
Is Arstechnica wrong? Quartz: "Display PDF"
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON