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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> Try installing xdirectfb - basically a directdb X server.
The point is to get rid of X11. If I gonna use xDirectFB then there are basically NO serious benefits and it would raise the questions wether using the native driver made for the GFX card wouldn't be better in this case. But you seem to have carefully read the DirectFB issue that I raised here and that you figured out from my writing that I was strictly NOT refering to xDirectFB.
Doing exactly this will be overhelming. It would add needless bloat to your system.
a) X11 as is
b) DirectFB + it's drivers
c) xDirectFB as driver in X11
d) compiling GNOME to support it.
a) and c) is not wanted and shouldn't even be thought about. It's a nice thing to play with and test stuff e.g. transparency but that's all. A true DirectFB solution is the solution sitting ontop of the Kernel without X11 at all.