Arcan 0.5.4 Display Server Released With Durden 0.4 Desktop

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67398

    Arcan 0.5.4 Display Server Released With Durden 0.4 Desktop

    Phoronix: Arcan 0.5.4 Display Server Released With Durden 0.4 Desktop

    Remember Arcan? The Linux display server built off a game engine. The project is ending 2017 with the release of the Arcan 0.5.4 display server and its associated Durden v0.4 desktop...

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  • Michael_S
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2011
    • 1296

    #2
    Those videos get more and more impressive.

    Code:
    git clone [email protected]:letoram/arcan.git ; cd arcan ; find . -type f -name '*.c' -print0 | xargs -0 cat | wc -l
    Cloning into 'arcan'... # omitted the rest
    322492
    ...322,000 lines of code, also about 88,000 lines of header files, and it's mostly a one-man show. That's an amazing project.

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    • profoundWHALE
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2013
      • 1199

      #3
      I think using a game engine is genius. You'll get hardware acceleration and multi-threading with the ability to display whatever you want, wherever you want it right out of the box.

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      • starshipeleven
        Premium Supporter
        • Dec 2015
        • 14568

        #4
        OMG, they got wobbly windows 3.0 (clothy windows).

        On a more serious note, this is shaping up very well so far.

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        • SethDusek
          Junior Member
          • Dec 2015
          • 26

          #5
          Here's a post from one of the developers of Arcan recently posted on reddit. It's a wayland compositor that can recover from crashes, and some of it is demod there.

          A commonly held misbelief about one of the possibly negative consequences with migrating from X11 to Wayland is that the system as a whole will become more brittle due to the merger of the display …

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          • crazyloglad
            Junior Member
            • Jul 2016
            • 28

            #6
            Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
            OMG, they got wobbly windows 3.0 (clothy windows)..
            The cloth drawing is only updated at 25fps though, which is pathetic, and there's no interaction between the wind in the snow particle system and the cloth - we must go deeper.

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            • crazyloglad
              Junior Member
              • Jul 2016
              • 28

              #7
              Originally posted by Michael_S View Post
              Those videos get more and more impressive.

              Code:
              git clone [email protected]:letoram/arcan.git ; cd arcan ; find . -type f -name '*.c' -print0 | xargs -0 cat | wc -l
              Cloning into 'arcan'... # omitted the rest
              322492
              ...322,000 lines of code, also about 88,000 lines of header files, and it's mostly a one-man show. That's an amazing project.
              Thanks ;-)
              Depressingly enough, there's also all the little side projects, discarded experiments, all the lua scripts, various toolkit backends and some non-public stuff. In my defence, some parts are about 15 years old by now.

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              • Michael_S
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2011
                • 1296

                #8
                Originally posted by crazyloglad View Post

                Thanks ;-)
                Depressingly enough, there's also all the little side projects, discarded experiments, all the lua scripts, various toolkit backends and some non-public stuff. In my defence, some parts are about 15 years old by now.
                I'm in my 40s, and the grand total code count of all of my open source contributions comes in at the low 100s. So in my view you're a software superhero. Nice work.

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