Re: FOSDEM talk

John,

Hi. Thanks for the update on X11 graphics development. Appreciate it!

Cheers,

Robin
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From: "John Hearns" <john.hearns-OWTvUcwe5eQMLht0+yDdMwC/[email protected]>
To: <linuxmovies-general-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:51 AM
Subject: [Linuxmovies-general] FOSDEM talk


> Over the weekend, I went to the FOSDEM conference in Belgium
> http://www.fosdem.org
> 
> Notable talks for me were Robert Love, on kernel and desktop 
> integration. You'll all know about this, but effort going into
> making Linux better at integrating devices, e.g. when a digital
> camera is plugged in Gphoto will start up and pop a message up
> to the user. 
> 
> An excellent lightning talk on LVM2 by Alistair Kergon -
> the sort of stuff you need if you look after many Tbytes of data.
> 
> Most interesting to this group was Keith Packards talk on Xfree86.
> His concept for the future is that 3D acceleration is highly 
> optimised.  OpenGL will be the lowest graphics layer, with 2D X
> sending data to that. (Sorry of my nomenclature is wrong, I hope the
> concept is clear).
> This makes it easy to do e.g. 3D collaborative environments.
> I think it willl also make it easy to do video effects on your 
> normal desktop machine. Yes, I know this is possible now, but it'll just
> be built in.
> Sorry if this concept is old news to this group.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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