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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> do they really need to run the whole thing as root? jeez.
Yes. They do. XFree86 accesses graphics hardware directly, and it needs root privileges in order to do so. Normal users are prohibited from directly accessing hardware, so that they may not compromise the stability of the system.
Hence an Xwrapper script is provided which drops all privileges after having done the necessary work as root.
Please read up on the facts before posting such comments.