Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Sep 2003 20:37 UTC
Today we feature a very interesting interview with Havoc Pennington. Havoc works for Red Hat, he is heading the desktop team, while he is well known also for his major contributions to GNOME, his GTK+ programming book, plus the freedesktop.org initiative which aims to standardize the X11 desktop environments. In the following interview we discuss about the changes inside Red Hat, Xouvert, freedesktop.org and Gnome's future, and how Linux, in general, is doing in the desktop market.
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In addition to what Eugenia said, not all cards support 2D acceleration under Linux. In fact, the card I'm using at the moment doesn't. Ah, I've giving up on 3D acceleration on this card. In the Linux sphere, your best bet to having anything relatively optimal with regards to 2D or 3D acceleration is investing in a Nvidia or ATI card. And even then complete support for all features available on the card is not guaranteed. You'd be lucky if the drivers don't screw up your whole system too. No, I'm not exagerating, it's really pitifull.
-Mystilleef