Linked by Andrew Youll on Wed 31st Aug 2005 06:17 UTC, submitted by jonsmirl
"I've written a lengthy article covering what I learned during the last two years building the Xegl display server. Topics include the current X server, framebuffer, Xgl, graphics drivers, multiuser support, using the GPU, and a new display server design. Hopefully it will help you fill in the pieces and build an overall picture of the graphics landscape."
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2005-07-06
Mozilla uses libart to render *SVG* and on *nix it uses GTK+ as it's low level toolkit.
2D operations are as accelerated on X as they are on windows, it's just a freakin blit. The problem is the architecture, X is not multithreaded, event handling totally sucks and responsiveness is awful. Some people don't seem to care, others do.