On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Tomas Frydrych <t...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > mainstream user. There are good reasons to provide legacy support, and > it's great to be able to run GNOME on a machine that is 5 years old, but > it must be seen for what it is -- legacy support, it cannot be where the > collective effort of GNOME should be concentrated.
Actually, compositing requirements are fairly low. A machine that's five years old would be right on the border of being supported. The Intel 915 chipset with GMA 900 was released in June of 2004.[1] While there aren't a lot of people out there testing on this older hardware, it's supported by the same `intel` driver used on the newest Intel chips. airlied (and Red Hat) is doing great work on the DRI2 driver for R200/R300 ATI chipsets. And for the newest ATI/NVidia stuff, there's always the proprietary option (regrettable though it may be). So, we're really talking about much older systems. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets#90nm_.22Dothan.22_Pentium_M.2FCeleron_M_Chipsets _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list