Funnily enough
Microsoft are starting to wedge ideas from X into Windows - witness the emergence of RDP and, on a more useful level, the ability of Citrix Metaframe XP to throw a single application window across the network.
Irrelevant to most users, my arse. Irrelevant to *home* users, I'd buy. App servers and Citrix products are starting to become common again in corporate computing.
Gryge - one bloke's disillusionment with a dead development model is NOT an insightful comment into the state of the art of graphical user interfaces.
Aside - On the same hardware, Windows XP's OpenGL performance is slower than that achieved under X. Test application is Quake III Arena. I get 100FPS at 1024x768x32 (full detail + trilinear + 2xAA) while I only hit 90-95 under Windows with the same settings. This is a dual boot box, so hardware parity is absolute :-)
Bah. This was supposed to be a reply to Andrew's initial post.
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Edited by
pwhysall
March 23, 2003, 08:01:09 AM EST
Funnily enough
Microsoft are starting to wedge ideas from X into Windows - witness the emergence of RDP and, on a more useful level, the ability of Citrix Metaframe XP to throw a single application window across the network.
Irrelevant to most users, my arse. Irrelevant to *home* users, I'd buy. App servers and Citrix products are starting to become common again in corporate computing.
Gryge - one bloke's disillusionment with a dead development model is NOT an insightful comment into the state of the art of graphical user interfaces.
Aside - On the same hardware, Windows XP's OpenGL performance is slower than that achieved under X. Test application is Quake III Arena. I get 100FPS at 1024x768x32 (full detail + trilinear + 2xAA) while I only hit 90-95 under Windows with the same settings. This is a dual boot box, so hardware parity is absolute :-)
Peter
[link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
