As an example, I'm currently playing with xmms. The deb file comes with an OpenGL plugin that runs quite slowly. However, if it could actually use the 3d acceleration of my voodoo 3 then it would run like the wind. I have a feeling that 3dFX cards don't actually support in-window 3d rendering, but other cards do, and they could be accelerated.
How about 3d modelling? This sort of thing really requires an accelerated X server.
I've come across him before. He gets himself on BBC programs like Tomorrows World and spouts the sort of predictions that we'll look back on and laugh at.
Last I heard he was predicting that AI's would be more intellegant than humans in a few years; and that they'd take over from humans as the dominant intellegance on the planet.
Oh, won't we laugh when we watch the old low-res 2D pictures on our optical implants...I don't think.
>I used to think that distributed windowing >systems >were cool, but I think they are dead now. The >web browser is the distributed windowing system >of the future. I think XLib type indirection is >just a bad idea. Way too much overhead
No! Without a distributed windowing system there is no way that I could have introduced Linux to the other 4 coders in my office. We need to run Outlook and develop for Windoze, but we also needed to do some Linux development. So...we got Exceed and another Linux box and we all work of that.
This would have been impossible if X wasn't distributed.
Plus it seems to me to be a very good way to gently introduce people to non-windows applications. If they can run it on their Windoze desktop then it isn't too much of a culture shock to start with.
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I downloaded that. It took a while on a share 64k line.
I played the first ten seconds and couldn't listen to the rest.
Thanks, I thought it was something like that...
I can understand that being a real problem on the Voodoo 1/2 where you a passthrough cables and such.
There really isn't any excuse for that in the Voodoo 3. Anyone know if the Voodoo 4 will still have this problem?
Darn backwards compatability...
Would you care to point us to any examples of this?
As an example, I'm currently playing with xmms. The deb file comes with an OpenGL plugin that runs quite slowly. However, if it could actually use the 3d acceleration of my voodoo 3 then it would run like the wind. I have a feeling that 3dFX cards don't actually support in-window 3d rendering, but other cards do, and they could be accelerated.
How about 3d modelling? This sort of thing really requires an accelerated X server.
No support for Voodoo 3???
I have a feeling that there is probably a good-ish reason for this. Anyone know what it is?
Well, the link isn't there.
However, I did manage to download the server from somewhere, and the page says that the server isn't available yet.
(The server I did download kept crashing with 'Illegal Instruction'. Any ideas?)
This guy's practical. I like it.
He's a notorious self publicist.
I've come across him before. He gets himself on BBC programs like Tomorrows World and spouts the sort of predictions that we'll look back on and laugh at.
Last I heard he was predicting that AI's would be more intellegant than humans in a few years; and that they'd take over from humans as the dominant intellegance on the planet.
Oh, won't we laugh when we watch the old low-res 2D pictures on our optical implants...I don't think.
>I used to think that distributed windowing >systems
>were cool, but I think they are dead now. The
>web browser is the distributed windowing system
>of the future. I think XLib type indirection is
>just a bad idea. Way too much overhead
No! Without a distributed windowing system there is no way that I could have introduced Linux to the other 4 coders in my office. We need to run Outlook and develop for Windoze, but we also needed to do some Linux development. So...we got Exceed and another Linux box and we all work of that.
This would have been impossible if X wasn't distributed.
Plus it seems to me to be a very good way to gently introduce people to non-windows applications. If they can run it on their Windoze desktop then it isn't too much of a culture shock to start with.