Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 8th Dec 2006 00:24 UTC
The holiday season hasn't gone exactly as Microsoft had hoped and Ballmer sits down with CNET News.com to discuss life after Vista, battling the iPod, and the rising importance of mobile devices.
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RE[4]: He said that word again
by archiesteel on Fri 8th Dec 2006 18:58
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Member since:2005-07-02
What you failed to mention, though, is that desktop compositing in Linux is buggy as hell and doesn't work on a lot of video cards.
Actually, it's working quite well now. It's stable, fast, and easy to configure with all the new setup tools available. It also works flawlessly with Nvidia, ATI and Intel cards...which is basically every 3D card out there.
Things move fast in the OSS world, unfortunately for anti-Linux trolls...
Ergo, it's not ready for prime time. So, Linux is still playing catch-up.
Sorry, but compositing in Linux is now *more* advanced than what you find in Vista. MS is the now playing catch-up (as far as eye candy goes).
RE[5]: He said that word again
by tomcat on Fri 8th Dec 2006 19:39
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2006-01-06
Desktop compositing is working on Linux *right now* with Beryl, which his not exclusively a Novell project but a community one.
What you failed to mention, though, is that desktop compositing in Linux is buggy as hell and doesn't work on a lot of video cards. Ergo, it's not ready for prime time. So, Linux is still playing catch-up.