On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sunda...@fedoraproject.org>wrote:
> On 11/28/2009 03:26 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > 3D requires more dead dinosaurs, coal and/or other sources of > > electrical energy than 2D to produce. I don't expect that to change, and > even > > if it does, using more than necessary will remain a wasteful allocation > of > > quickly diminishing global resources. Consequently, "enabled by default" > will > > be ecologically irresponsible if it does come to pass. > > Huh? Your perspective just seems very odd. In a year, if we don't have > a composited desktop by default in Fedora, I would be very very > surprised. Just watch. > > Rahul > > I actually would be surprised if we had a composited desktop in Fedora by default in a year. Maybe if the radical changes going on in Mesa's master tree weren't going on, that wouldn't be surprising. However, with the Gallium work, I seriously doubt that we will have composited desktop by default next year. Also, it would be nice if in a repo with experimental graphics drivers, the gallium drivers could be made available. Gallium will soon be the way that VMware offers accelerated 3D for Linux guests since they contributed a gallium driver. Given that, I think it should get some exposure to the rest of the Fedora community to get stuff tested. Gallium isn't totally broken, last I heard. In fact, I think the ATi gallium driver is supposed to be at least partially working.
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