yep, sounds like a step into a different direction; though GL-rendering seems to be the way to go, since even 'droids do it... maybe thats a new way to briing mobile linux and desktop linux closer together again...
Cirrus has been porting xscoar from wince to linux, and is now doing it with a java frontent that forwards the GL rendering...
first renders on on android can already be watched:
http://www.androidblip.com/android-apps/xcsoar-62760.html
(its a glider navigation software)
maybe some time in the not to distant future one can scrap the java frontend for the c-code then.
I'm not sure that switching away from gnome as default is such a bright idea though.
Part of me doesn't like gnome because it feels very python/perl-ey to me and only works because machines are so fast nowadays that I don't notice the inner suck.
But from a more practical point of view: let's face it, few people switch from the ubuntu (or anything else for that matter) defaults because the effect of doing so is that you will forever have to keep customizing shit every time you upgrade/reinstall. Or if you install on a new machine or use somebody else's machine you have to use two environments. It's always easier just to stick with the defults, and linux newbies will do just that.
The problem then is that any recent newbies or any not-super technical linux users who chose ubuntu because it's the way to go for newbies might be unpleasantly surprised to have to deal with the same massive-ui changing shit MS has been doing to everybody for years.
I'm speaking from ignorance, I assume that they're not going to be able to duplicate the gnome environment.
does firefox have a native backend to that?
I heard they were doing opengl rendering on windows already and IE9 is trying to use hardware acceleration too...
I realy think firefox/chrome are what dictates the direction to go... and the availability of flash still is a basic requirement for any browser these days (youtube..)
until thats the case, i'd call it half baked...
otoh, once firefox starts to move into that direction, x11fox is definitely going to suffer.
Since Firefox on Linux is a GTK application, Firefox will come along for the ride automatically. I don't know what obstacles are involved (if any) with using X11 plugins on a Wayland browser.
Mo Nov 15 2010 13:46:14 EST von IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
Since Firefox on Linux is a GTK application, Firefox will come along for the ride automatically. I don't know what obstacles are involved (if any) with using X11 plugins on a Wayland browser.
performance? Rendering 's gotta be fast. browser is _the_ main application these days..
and, there are rumors that nvidia for example won't support wayland for a while now.
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html
works like a charm.
top - 17:30:09 up 60 days, 10:18, 24 users, load average: 65.70, 62.10, 38.18
Tasks: 610 total, 65 running, 542 sleeping, 2 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 88.0%us, 8.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 3.2%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3696004k total, 3582516k used, 113488k free, 116460k buffers
Swap: 1847432k total, 318904k used, 1528528k free, 1406600k cached
and still a verry responsive iceweasel.
week -- a patch to the Linux kernel scheduler that keeps interactive
performance of the machine running somewhat smooth even when it is
heavily loaded.
that'd be nice.
Windows for all of its faults, you have to do something pretty bad to, to make the mouse stop moving.
It annoys the shit out of me when the mouse pointer doesn't move, even if I can't click anything.
That would be a nice fix.
it uses the controll groups (like the patch) to group processes by tty (aka shell they run in)
so if you start a cpu intense application spawned in a bunch of processes, the scheduler will rather calculate the group as one item next to your firefox process (or whatever) then putting each of these processes next to firefox; by that your box will remain as responsive as if you would just run one cpu intnse process.
best sample use: make -j64
-> all your available cpu time will go into compiling, but the box will remain responsive as if it doesn't compile. no dia-show.
"At the same time, Novell announced it would sell certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation."
The other shoe has dropped. SCO was a patsy in this game. The long, drawn-out lawsuit proved in a court of law that it was Novell, not SCO, who owned the Unix copyrights.
And now Microsoft owns them.
yea, that part of the deal is pretty scary. fail :(
Even with the suprememly mediocre response on my netbook, I was pleased.
It right flies on my desktop, which is a few years old now. If I were just doing producting things on it, I could see it becoming my primary desktop environment.
You might want to look at this little slideshow which is a nice description of the Android architecture - http://goo.gl/NWjVg
I wish I had the time to get into writing mobile apps. It looks like fun.