On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 23:58 +0000, cdr wrote: > why not? i usd to talk shit aobut OSX, mainly because it was slow on > my G3. but they were the first with an on-GPU GUI, which was 90% of > the resource usage. linux will maybe have this ironed out by about > 2008, but of course there will praobly be forks/camps around DE lines, > proprietary-driver-support biases etc. I think it will be much sooner - I predict a mainstream distro will ship a 3D accelerated desktop by the end of 2006. I definitely expect Linux to beat Microsoft on this. Ever since the XFree86 -> Xorg transition X development has drastically accelerated, after years of glacially slow development. Lee
