Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 1st Jul 2002 17:50 UTC
David Dawes is maybe the most active XFree86 developer and he is also the lead founder of the project. He works for Tungsten Graphics, which is the main company working on the XFree, DRI and Mesa codebases today. We are happy to host an interview with David, discussing the present and future of XFree86 project. Update: Still confused how a VSYNCed desktop look like? Read here.
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Ah, now I understand why you have a problem with that question:
Because none of you have seen a VSYNCed 2D desktop in order to compare it to the "traditional" ones.
NOT all of MacOSX installations support the feature, because when there is not enough bandwidth because the gfx card may be crappy and can't pull off this feature on 32-bit color, or because it is a G3, or because the resolution is too high, MacOSX falls back to the "traditional" refresh.
As for the BeOS 6/Dano version, only a handful of BeOS users have seen this leaked version of BeOS that supports that feature. If you have seen this feature and you would like to comment on it, please do.
Of course, the smoothness of VSYNC is not very visible on LCD's, but it makes a whole lot of difference on CRTs!
Based on these facts, I understand why you do not understand this question or how a smooth VSYNC'ed desktop looks like.
I know David understood me very well though.