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| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by Hiev on 2012-09-06 22:41:47 |
| "This is an introductory overview post for the Linux Graphics Stack, and how it currently all fits together. I initially wrote it for myself after having conversations with people like Owen Taylor, Ray Strode and Adam Jackson about this stack. I had to go back to them every month or so and learn the stuff from the ground up all over again, as I had forgotten every single piece. I asked them for a good high-level overview document so I could stop bothering them. They didn't know of any. I started this one. It has been reviewed by Adam Jackson and David Airlie, both of whom work on this exact stack." Introductory or no, still pretty detailed. |
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| By Hiev on 2012-09-06 22:57:59 |
| After reading this, it made want Wayland even more. |
 - Score: 10 |
| Old blog post is old |
| By kragil on 2012-09-07 00:08:13 |
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The Linux Graphics Stack Posted on June 16, 2012 But it is a great post. Wayland will rock. |
| - Score: 2 |
| Comment by shmerl |
| By shmerl on 2012-09-07 03:43:47 |
| Would be great to see some Wayland adoption in the mobile sphere. Looks like even Nvidia starts to be interested. |
| - Score: 3 |
| UNIX? |
| By antik on 2012-09-07 05:37:36 |
| You mean UNIX graphics stack? Or everything since today would be Linux only? One Nation, One State, One Leader? |
| - Score: 5 |
| RE: UNIX? |
| By evert on 2012-09-07 09:49:15 |
| I would love that. We need one champion to take on Windows and MacOS, not 10^6 different *nix-like operating systems and Linux flavours. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: UNIX? |
| By einr on 2012-09-07 09:56:26 |
| No, they do not "mean" that, and if you had paid the article even a cursory glance, you would already know that. libdrm, Wayland and other things the article deals with are Linux specific. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: UNIX? |
| By moondevil on 2012-09-07 10:50:05 |
| Well, I imagine a kernel needs a few things more to have the graphics stack running. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: UNIX? |
| By kwan_e on 2012-09-07 11:19:40 |
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> I would love that. We need one champion to take on Windows and MacOS, not 10^6 different *nix-like operating systems and Linux flavours. And that is why we end up with so many Linux distributions. "Unlike all previous distributions, MY distribution will be the end-all." |
| - Score: 7 |
| RE: ... |
| By renox on 2012-09-07 11:20:36 |
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Of course, as this was written by a Wayland fan.. Wayland has some downsides too: do you know what happens when you try to move a Window of a busy application in Wayland? |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE: Old blog post is old |
| By Lennie on 2012-09-07 11:26:46 |
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I thought I've even seen it posted on OSNews before. Not only that, I remember at the time specifically not reading an article because I thought it was this one. I can't find it right now, though. |
| - Score: 2 |
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