--- Roland Nagtegaal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello mr. Miller, and the others,
>
> Years ago I followed the development of the GGI project which
> attempted to improve the linux graphics subsystem to, say, IRIX
> levels. Although they never succeeded,
Did the project close down? That would be a shame - they did some
impressive stuff.
> it turned out that graphics hardware is generally
> designed in such a way that it is very hard, or impossible for the OS
> to provide direct access to graphics hardware for multiple programs
> simultanuously in a fast, secure and stable manner. Apparantly SGI
> did make such secure but still fast hardware.
Somehow, in the x86 world, that doesn't surprise me. :-/
> * Secure as in providing protected graphics contexts for different
> programs, what I think would be needed for integrating SELinux with
> the X window system without making it slow;
Hmm, that's an interesting idea. IIRC Redhat is leading the SELinux
charge into the user world - do they have anybody thinking about this?
CY
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