On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:18, Lee Revell wrote: >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 Yes, and Novel just donated to the X.org project, the latest version of their whiz bang super accelerated x accelerator eye candy. They have a site up with a capture of the stuff they did at a show in Germany a couple of weeks ago, and let me tell you it was damned impressive even when played back by an mplayer pluggin. I should have bookmarked the site, but hindsite seems to be the better working sight for me today.:( -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
