Drool..... (KeithP's XFree86 fork screenshots)

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Drool..... (KeithP's XFree86 fork screenshots)

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http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/
http://developers.slashdot.org/develope ... 85&tid=189

Well, not a fork, but rewrite, meaning probably no HW 3d acceleration for nVidia, since drivers have to be rewritten. Supported drivers are:
# Mach64
# Matrox
# Vesa
# Fbdev

Finally we will now have our real transparent terminals :P . Hah, MacOSX just doesn't seem so good anymore...

I've heard ATI is giving out HW specs, so there can be OSS drivers. Does that mean that I should buy an ATI card?

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One of my Linux buddies was ridiculously jealous of OS X's translucent terminal. This should satisfy him. Now the real question remains ... can they make a GUI as good-looking as Aqua? All the imitations I've seen look awful.

And you should get an ATi card because it's better anyway. :)
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Am I missing something here? Why is it so great to have transclucent windows?
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Darth Wong wrote:Am I missing something here? Why is it so great to have transclucent windows?
Mac users are clearly deranged individuals.
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Darth Wong wrote:Am I missing something here? Why is it so great to have transclucent windows?
Side effect of that crazy Steve Jobs RDF?
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Durandal's been drinking the Kool-Aid again, that and the turtlenecks must be constricting blood flow to the brain :twisted:
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Darth Wong wrote:Am I missing something here? Why is it so great to have transclucent windows?
It just is. Don't question it. Give into to the RDF.
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What's the RDF?

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Reality Distortion Field.
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Pu-239 wrote:What's the RDF?
The mysterious Reality Distortion Field surrounding Steve Jobs is how he was able to convince many Mac users that the G4, despite being stuck on a pathetically slow bus with ancient memory, was faster than a Pentium 4 with over twice the clockrate, 5 times the bus speed and faster memory. It went so far that some Mac users believed that their 233 MHz iMacs were faster than 1 GHz Pentium III's because the G3 is a "RISC processor."
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