Re: Can't X be elemenated?

kartikey bhatt
2003-09-30T08:09:26Z

your graphics card (hw) is resource that needs to be managed by OS.
leaving it to 3rd party developers is an *adhoc* solution, *a stark immoral
choice*.
my friend gotta new AMD athlon with nvidia gforce 32mb shared memory,
but he is on the mercy of X people to get full support for it.
for now he has to do with generic i810 driver?
any answer for that.
my question is can't X be eleminated by providing support for
graphics drivers and other routines at kernel level?

>From: Diego Calleja García <diegocg@teleline.es>
>To: "kartikey bhatt" <kartik_me@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: Can't X be elemenated?
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:11:01 +0200
>
>El Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:14:56 +0530 "kartikey bhatt" <kartik_me@hotmail.com>
>escribió:
>
> > 1st. X is bloat. Though it's good for server environments. For desktop
>pcs
> > it's too heavy. On my machine (PIII500 with 128MB RAM) I have to choose
>from
> > either to run X or compile 2.6.0-test6.
> >
> > 2nd. It's process based client/server architecture is a bottleneck. It's
>not
> > as interactive as is supposed to be.
>
>You might want to discuss that with X people. It's been demonstrated that
>the
>client/server model is noy a bottleneck...in fact there're benchmarks which
>show
>X being almost as fast as the windows GDI... (using the shared memory
>extension)
>
> >
> > 3rd. Most important. I can't impress or convince my window(crash)(TM)
>user
> > friends, relatives (who saw X running on my pc) to use Linux.
>
>I can impress them quite well running the X server in a different machine
>:)
>
> >
> > 4th. I want to see desktop being ruled by Linux.
>
>It's already ruling my desktop 8)
>
>But you might want to talk with X developers. Linus it's just the kernel
>maintainer.
>
>
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