KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing

An anonymous reader writes "KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers."

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first post!

[Anonymous Coward]

I may use your mouth as a toilet.

GPL: Intellectual Theft

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello,

As a consultant for several large companies, I'd always done my work on
Windows. Recently however, a top online investment firm asked us to do
some work using Linux. The concept of having access to source code was
very appealing to us, as we'd be able to modify the kernel to meet our
exacting standards which we're unable to do with Microsoft's products.

Although we met several technical challenges along the way
(specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we
were unable to defrag its ext2 file system), all in all the process
went smoothly. Everyone was very pleased with Linux, and we were
considering using it for a great deal of future internal projects.

So you can imagine our surprise when we were informed by a lawyer that
we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. It
was brought to our attention that Linux is copyrighted under something
called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License. Part of this license
states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available.
Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money
we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would
now be available at no cost to our competitors.

Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any
products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to
its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.

Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever
use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult
position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with
another solution. Although it was tough to do, there really was no
option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000.

I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive
with Microsoft is this GPL. Its draconian requirements virtually
guarantee that no business will ever be able to use it. After my
experience with Linux, I won't be recommending it to any of my
associates. I may reconsider if Linux switches its license to
something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Shared Source".
Until then its attempts to socialize the software market will insure
it remains only a bit player.

Thank you for your time.

And for those older machines?

[nurb432]

I assume that for those that have older machines and are stuck with pure software implementations of openGL kde will now become unusable.

Re:And for those older machines?

[nurb432]

IF i have to RTFA then what value is a summary? Or Slashdot at all? The entire point is to aggregate news so you don't have to run off and read every single story out there at its original source.

Re:And for those older machines?

[coryking]

But it isn't good hardware! It is old, slow, buggy, and most of all power hungry. Besides, it is *expensive* to maintain older hardware. Expensive because it is harder to find parts, harder to find support, and harder to find software that is compatible with it. Not to mention people, like you (and those that for some reason moderated you up), tend to do it all for spite. Spite = stress, which is not good for your body, so even in those terms it is expensive

So my advice to you is to toss your old crap and buy new hardware. It won't kill you, I promise.

If you still refuse, I have to ask why you bother reading a technology website when you clearly hate technology (or at least modern technology)? It is one of the things that bugs me about slashdot (and lands the site in my firewall every so often to break the damn time sink)--why are so many people here such damn Luddites?

KDE4

[Anonymous Coward]

KDE4 is still used by anybody? It has been a huge mess from the start. KDE 4.2+ shouldv'e been KDE 4.0. Having a dozen major updated before the environment is even barely usable is not good engineering. It fucking sucks, KDE is dead to me until at least 2-3 positive stories emerge. Hasn't happened yet.

Re:bloat ware

[Anonymous Coward]

I stopped using KDE 6 years ago cause it was overbloated with crap eyecandy

make a desktop that is easy to use (ie doesnt move shit around just cause my mouse isnt focused on it) and doesnt make the newest and the best machines crawl then maybe I will look at KDE again

Interesting

[mark72005]

I recently took a long break from Linux et al., and this is exactly what people were writing about GNOME when last I checked.

KDE was it, and GNOME was designed for idiots, so only idiots used it.

The winds of change

I shit on Linux users

[Anonymous Coward]

Fucking faggot cunt bitches.

Re:At some point you have to update

[nurb432]

Or Lincoln was. It all depends on what side of the mason-dixon line you were on. But regardless, you dont have a clue what the true meaning of the statement was, so you failed the test. ( yes, it was a test )

Re:At some point you have to update

[nurb432]

Since when is payment a requirement of being a customer? Hint: Its not.