-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 01:30:30PM +0000, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > On 09/09/2016 12:44 AM, Dima Puntus wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After testing Qubes for a few weeks (3.1, 3.2-rc1,2&3), here's my 2 cents: > > > > It's a great OS in many aspects but still unusable outside of the > > small group of the "terminal only" ppl. Reason # 1 is graphics. In > > this day and age it's expected for any OS to at least have basic video > > rendering without glitches. AFAIK, Qubes is still using the old Fedora > > 20 video drivers (even for Intel IGPs), while Fedora 25, Wayland > > enabled is only 2 months away. I thought this was a Xen+Fedora > > limitation, so I installed Fedora 24 + Xen, Ubuntu 16.04+Xen, Debian 8 > > + Xen, - and they all work ok with decent drivers. So, I guess, in > > order to conform to certain security requirements, the Qubes team was > > forced to "tweak" the X server and/or drivers. > > > > So what's the current status on video drivers in Qubes? Is Wayland on > > its way or are we hooped? Any insights? This is not just my personal > > question (though I'd love to switch to Qubes as my primary OS) but > > also many of my colleagues in the IT/IS world. > > There was a problem getting Xen to compile in Fedora 24. Search for > those words in the mailing list.
AFAIR this particular problem was fixed (not sure if in xen 4.6 or 4.7). - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX/jy2AAoJENuP0xzK19cspcwH/jxzJhzH866ebVh3OevNTDpU mPs0eIg8K5z2bELh16FO40bIGQ0i6nVUxqhaWwHkp+2EKK6CLQ7kqOFC2I9qG3lP eeBPqLVa9wSzc9Eblmf5qMoKz0zn0DaJH9/A+YrLO77vu9gV9D7su2naQoEz8nV8 SEF17jePb4O7Q3ot/Bzh0aATh12nBTIhjnBUUXlkyWi9r9OVan6C9TE7riHu/skt iSeqDBdFZwU16Tn4W6EEBOvNghD3r/KYv4ZGUDcbxFX9oq5KWN1Pw8xMzfhyhDlv dYPkmSXKqVektHY8K/8CEb/hzzczwKXnlwcc6UlvmvuqCmEQM6BCKG+pwheglNc= =+Iva -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20161012133800.GG15776%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
