12 Mar
2006
12 Mar
'06
8:18 p.m.
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