Linked by Guillaume Maillard on Thu 10th Oct 2002 05:44 UTC
Being a BeOS user (a purely desktop system) and because I code under Linux, I see XFree86 (v4.1 on my machine) as a user and as a developper. And this is where the problem lies. My Gnome or KDE desktops are slow in comparison with other operating systems, but XFree86, the 'engine' behind these desktops, proves me that it's not. Let's look at what I have in front of me: a dual Pentium III at 933Mhz with 512MB of memory, a Radeon 32 AIW, a modified Mandrake 8.0 powered by kernel 2.4.18.
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>But why don't you submit this back to the XFree project
and my Amiga 1200 is powered with a 68060 a 50Mhz!
>so that everyone can enjoy better performance?
Because I use XFree to reach this speed, it can't be merged, XFree need to be improved/modified as suggested in order to something "interesting". Improvment must not be 'on top' but 'in depth'.
> Amiga500: frequency 7.14 Mhz
Sure, but my A500 is a custom one
> Radeon driver
I use the one provided with XFree4.1
> DRI
Nice concept but 3D oriented, I only wanted to cover the 2D part(even if I mentioned that the 3D acceleration solve a lot of issue).
Regards,
Guillaume