Linus on X

Jon Smirl <jonsmirl-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Did anyone notice this?

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=568003838&fp=16&fpid=0

I don’t think X is going away as it has a powerful infrastructure and throwing
it away would be stupid. And its network transparency is good. It’s likely
that X will be the 2D interface to a lower-level graphics system that is based
on OpenGL. The Linux desktop wants to have 3D as the base and X as the interface
to 2D.

The fact that X and kernel development have been separate is good; one could
evolve without the other but DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) has made them
not completely independent. As a developer, having the two separate is good,
because different people are good at developing for each.



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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl-/[email protected]

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