Star Making the Case for XFree86's Speed
Linked by Guillaume Maillard on Thu 10th Oct 2002 05:44 UTC
X11, Window Managers 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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Re: Misc
by Richard on Thu 10th Oct 2002 15:11 UTC

>> 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'.

I see, I think I misunderstood you the first time..

About the demo:

I've made my own demo once (or actually a small wm), which used OpenGL to render its windows.
However, this demo looks like it's also using OpenGL..

Is this really just plain XFree or just OpenGL?