On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:44:32 +0530 "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp_at_acm.org> wrote: [Please don't top-post] > I find X windows to be a bit too compute intensive. Maybe something > like apple's interface would be a good alternative [for those who > don't need X-windows' powerful graphic features]. What makes you think so? X was originally desgined for systems with little memory and processing power, certainly a lot less than today's AMD and Intel space heaters. There are some features that do indeed require more CPU, like antialiasing. That's the price to pay for eye candy. Things like the composite and damage extensions do wonders to help in those areas and make things like true transparency and alpha blending possible. So, in time, X won't be that different from Aqua in its use of hardware. The lack of speed in some apps can be blamed mostly on the toolkits. GTK+ 1.2 was a speed demon, GTK+ 2.x is a lot slower. There are some people working on a fast Pango code path that could make english text rendering fast again. X gives you network transparency out of the box. I used an old SGI Indy as an X term to connect to my FreeBSD box for years, and it worked like a charm over a 10Mbit connection. Replacing X means writing something that's API compatible, or writing an X server on top of your new display system, so that you don't have to throw the thousands of X apps into the trashcan. About some of the other comments in the thread. IMHO using bsdinstaller as a base could be beneficial for both groups and save duplicated work. I'm sure they'll be glad to get internacionalization patches. I agree that a journaled filesystem is really needed if you want to manage multi TiB partitions. As rock solid and tested softupdates is, fsck is not an acceptable solution in this case. Some people were working on a port of XFS, has any progress been made? I tried contacting them some time ago, but never got an answer. Sounds like a very interesting, though. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <flynn_at_energyhq.es.eu.org> | lea gfx_lib(pc),a1 http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org | moveq #0,d0 PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 | move.l 4.w,a6 Note: All HTML mail goes to /dev/null | jsr -552(a6)
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