2009/4/6 Jason D. Clinton <m...@jasonclinton.com>: > 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).
You are missing the remote desktop scenario here. This is not only a matter of working on old hardware, being able to run gnome smoothly on a thin client solution through XDM, or VNC, or whatever is also needed. > 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 > -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
