From http://distributions.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/01/1735216
"Athene is a combination of a custom Linux From Scratch-derived
operating system using the 2.6.7 kernel, SciTech SNAP Graphics
drivers, and the Athene Desktop featuring the Pandora graphics
toolkit. It was designed from the ground up to be a fast yet
graphic-intensive desktop operating system that would appeal to
a wide range of users."
"On first inspection it's simply amazing. The graphics are visually
impressive and there are none of the usual problems associated
with an X server, such as tearing, flicker, bad geometry, and slow
redraws. You click a button in a window or dialogue and the resulting
action is instantaneous. I suspect this has more to do with the
superior 2D graphics engine than anything else -- in other words,
you're seeing the screen redraw faster than you're used to in Windows,
Mac OS X, or an X11-based desktop, and that makes the whole operating
system seem like it's supercharged"
Is it really all that fast or has the author just been using
KDE/Gnome on XFree86 all his life?
Perhaps.
I have no problems with either qua or Windows XP GUI speed...
He wasn't referring to OS X and XP GUI speed as slow. He merely stated that Athene redraw's FASTER than those two. Only X was referred to as having slow redraws.
To paraphrase, "wow, pare, ang BILIS ng Athene, walang sinabi ang X sa Pandora! In fact, mas mabilis pa nga siya kaysa sa Windows at Mac OS X!" Mantakin mo iyun? :-)
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