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- trogdoor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Glucose is goint to be simply amazing, it's what AIGLX should be, and more. Imagine for instance being able to run a remote application that uses 3D ( like a Game ) and have it render on your local machine, so you could be running a game from a headless ( No Graphics card at all ) server half way across the world yet have the benefit of the rendering being done on your local machine's GPU. Xorg releases are exiting, and they do apply very much to desktop users, much more so than kernel releases ( though I think they are exiting also ).
- ArthurSucks, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24The open source community has done more for the Desktop market in the last two years than anyone else. It's a good time to be a Linux user.
- SirNuke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Heh, http://www.xfree86.org/4.7.0/RELNOTES.html [this is the latest xfree86 release, there's a couple of cool minor additions but it is mostly just bug and security fixes]
Dropping xfree86 and creating X.org is probably one of the best things that has happened to Linux and BSDes in a very, very long time. - carro9, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Multi-Pointer X Support while using Compiz Fusion on Kubuntu Hardy Heron, here I come!
- VenTatsu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10The leading players in a market rarely are the driving force of the market. BeOS did a lot for the desktop, it's all but dead, but it and OS X forced MS to at least try to move Windows into this century. The smallest players move a market because they force the large players to keep moving instead of stagnating.
- mvent2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9No, Linux appeals to people who know better than to spend $400 on bloated blue-screening *****. Guess which OS out of the three had multiple desktops first?
- jy802, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Best of all that once Glucose is hooked into the server it won't require it to be implemented in each driver individually... So no waiting months for ATI and NVIDIA and their blobs to support this beauty.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Multitouch isn't exciting?
- cookiecaper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Cool, but I'm most anxious to see redirected direct rendering, which apparently is so far out it's not even on the docket. That is highly upsetting.
- twljagflba, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4FTA: The current schedule for X.Org include the X server 1.4.1 release coming out on the first of November followed by X server 1.5.0 in March of 2008. Planned for X.Org 7.4 and X server 1.5 is XGE, XACE, RandR 1.3, PCI rework, XKB 2, _X_EXPORT, DRI memory manager, GLX 1.4, and Glucose.
- Garfunkel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3cool, i just hope they take their time with this one. They need to focus on bug squatting more come close to release.
- GerbilSoft, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3What desktops does Microsoft produce? Don't know? NONE. Microsoft does not make desktop computers; companies like Dell, HP, Apple, etc. do.
- Avian00, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Are you a moron? Don't know? Yes. You're a moron.
- Jfave, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Unix?
- dlin128, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Glucose ++ FTW
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1That /is/ exciting. Didn't know about it. :-)
- iignotus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2FTW FTL. YHBDD, LOL.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -16/+3It's hard to describe a project like X Org as "exciting" and the same goes for the kernel. They are considered 'boring'. It's a very good overview, but it isn't quite as interesting as reviews of Compiz Fusion or AmaroK.
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