On Mar 27, 2007, at 2:07 AM, Derick Centeno wrote: > It would be great to move from theory or hearsay into reality, with > someone or a group of persons dedicating some time to this question. > It would also would be a real boon for other potential projects as to > how it was done and sharing that information with others for their own > usage. > > I don't know why anyone cares so much about Vista; there are other > interfaces such as XGL which blow it away already available for Linux. > You can see a You-tube video of that here:
It always surprises me how much effort goes into visual interfaces and eye candy. 99% of what I do is from a CLI in a terminal window. Most machines today have more raw processing power on the graphics card than in the main CPU. I recall a certain word processor project (which shall remain nameless) where 30 guys were working on "skins" before the program could even manage to print anything, certainly a pretty fatal flaw for a WP. But then I come from an era when upgrading from punch cards to punched paper tape was a dramatic event, and an ASR-33 teletype was pretty much the standard "high speed" interface, and 4K (that's "K", not "M" or "G") of core memory was considered a lot. > > As for myself, I don't have a PS3 nor can I currently acquire the > other > necessary accoutrements for now or the near future. So all I can > offer are encouraging cheers. > Derick. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
