[geeks] Sun a possible takeover target - rumours

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:14:51AM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2003 05:58, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Why?  Because of speed?
> >
> > The idea is for it to be hardware accelerated so it becomes trivial.
> >
> > You should have this if you run the latest X servers and have the right
> > drivers and hardware.
> 
> Maybe it's Xfree specific, but it can only do transparancy using very ugly 
> tricks. And the transparancy does NOT happen in the X server I'm pretty 
> sure... In fact X can only do transparancy for the root window, no real 
> transparancy. 

That's old X.

Xrender and other features are really picking up.

If the non XFree versions aren't keeping up, well...

That's really too bad.  X was allowed to sit stagnant for many years.


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