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  • plonoma
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    I just want Wayland to provide a good interface for doing many things.
    Make sure it supports multiple output and input devices.
    (If somebody has four screens three mouses and two keyboards connected to his/her computer it should also just work.)
    Make sure things that can be modular are done so and don't make it difficult to make hardware acceleration for everything.


    I'm hoping wayland and other new technologies would allow for relatively long period of stable api's.

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  • Nobu
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    I have only this to say: I'm not spending $100+ on an OS (license) that I'll only use for browsing the web. Yes, you'll pay that much for Windows (or OS X before they became upgrades) if you aren't buying in bulk or OEM licenses. Of course, for the average consumer that cost is subsidised somewhere in the cost of their new computer, or they only need an upgrade which costs some fraction of a new license.

    Operating systems with a Linux kernel provide a good alternative to Windows if all you do is browse the web. They may not be the best, but Linux provides a very good base with wide hardware support (including or excluding graphics drivers), and there are usable desktop environments that work ontop of it. Haiku, etc., are good (some would--I might even--say great) alternatives as long as your hardware is supported, but if it isn't then what do you fall back on? Either Linux, a BSD, OS X (almost, or really not an option for 3rd party hardware) or Windows.
    Last edited by Nobu; 08 April 2012, 04:58 PM.

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  • XorEaxEax
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    Originally posted by RealNC View Post
    Give a Windows or Mac user anything else than Gnome or KDE and he's gonna laugh his ass off.
    Based upon what? The 'compositing bling' ? Please explain which parts of these desktop environments make them the only thing Windows or Mac users may accept? I came from Windows to Linux myself.

    Originally posted by RealNC View Post
    Yeah, 3D sculpting with Blender. What a killer app for multimedia and desktop users. Way to go.
    I brought it up as something performing very well using open souce nouveau despite being extremely dependant on 3d acceleration. Also, what multimedia/desktop killer app are you referring too which doesn't work under nouveau?

    Originally posted by RealNC View Post
    You raised the issue, why are you asking me?
    No I didn't, I only responded.

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  • RealNC
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    Originally posted by XorEaxEax View Post
    I make no assumptions as to what other people 'need', but personally I have no need for Gnome or KDE (I run Openbox but there are tons of other VM's). Also you don't need Gnome or KDE to have desktop composite effects.
    Give a Windows or Mac user anything else than Gnome or KDE and he's gonna laugh his ass off.

    BS, you are exaggerating the differences in performance, I use Blender quite alot and mostly for 3d sculpting which really takes a toll on the 3d acceleration since you deal with heavily subdivided meshes and I can work just fine with nouveau on a 9600GT card.
    Yeah, 3D sculpting with Blender. What a killer app for multimedia and desktop users. Way to go.

    If all you wanted was a web browser then why the heck would you use Windows or OSX?
    You raised the issue, why are you asking me?

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  • XorEaxEax
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    Originally posted by RealNC View Post
    The only people who still run 2D desktops are old-school fanatics who are still stuck with their xterm and think Gnome and KDE are "bloat" no one needs.
    I make no assumptions as to what other people 'need', but personally I have no need for Gnome or KDE (I run Openbox but there are tons of other VM's). Also you don't need Gnome or KDE to have desktop composite effects.

    Originally posted by RealNC View Post
    And besides, you don't need speed to browse the web. Speed is needed to run 3D applications. Take away the blobs, and Linux joins the club of Haiku and the likes
    BS, you are exaggerating the differences in performance, I use Blender quite alot and mostly for 3d sculpting which really takes a toll on the 3d acceleration since you deal with heavily subdivided meshes and I can work just fine with nouveau on a 9600GT card. Haiku on the other hand has no 3d acceleration at all for my card (it has some for ATI cards afaik) so it doesn't even begin to compare (there is a Gallium port for Haiku on the works though).

    Originally posted by RealNC View Post
    Really, if all you want is a web browser, why the heck use Linux then?
    If all you wanted was a web browser then why the heck would you use Windows or OSX?

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  • RealNC
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    Originally posted by not.sure View Post
    I think he means doing 2D stuff with the 3D engine on a composited desktop. And 1990ies-designed blobs were never meant to be good at that, while the modern OSS drivers are [meant to]. Just try scrolling firefox with a nvidia blob. Notoriously full of extremely slow software fall-backs.
    Looks just as fast here as with the OSS drivers. I was using radeon KMS before, now changed hardware and using the NVidia blob. It's actually faster and smoother then the OSS radeon (no framedrops anymore on the desktop.) So I have no idea what you mean with "just try scrolling firefox". It works fine and smoother than the OSS driver.

    I agree "right now" we still need blobs. But already in a year from now things might have changed for the better (radeon consolidation, nouveau power management, more capable intel GPUs,...)
    I really don't think things will change in a year. Maybe in 4-5.

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  • not.sure
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    Originally posted by RealNC View Post
    No one cares about 2D anymore. All modern desktops are composited. The only people who still run 2D desktops are old-school fanatics who are still stuck with their xterm and think Gnome and KDE are "bloat" no one needs.
    I think he means doing 2D stuff with the 3D engine on a composited desktop. And 1990ies-designed blobs were never meant to be good at that, while the modern OSS drivers are [meant to]. Just try scrolling firefox with a nvidia blob. Notoriously full of extremely slow software fall-backs.

    I agree "right now" we still need blobs. But already in a year from now things might have changed for the better (radeon consolidation, nouveau power management, more capable intel GPUs,...)

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  • RealNC
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    Originally posted by curaga View Post
    "Desktop" = mainly web browser, and 2d sucks with the blobs. Therefore I respectfully disagree.
    No one cares about 2D anymore. All modern desktops are composited. The only people who still run 2D desktops are old-school fanatics who are still stuck with their xterm and think Gnome and KDE are "bloat" no one needs. We don't need these people. If we listened to them, Linux would still be the OS of geeks who like arcane computer terminals and we would be running 40MHz 486's and playing PacMan and ASCII "RPG"s.

    And besides, you don't need speed to browse the web. Speed is needed to run 3D applications. Take away the blobs, and Linux joins the club of Haiku and the likes, not being able to compete with the "big boys" (MS and Apple.) Really, if all you want is a web browser, why the heck use Linux then? The blobs, at least for now and the short-term future, make sure Linux is able to stand as an alternative to Windows.

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  • kraftman
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    Originally posted by RealNC View Post
    All I have to say about those two Qualcomm guys: man I'm I glad they're not calling the shots. They're trying hard to kill Linux on the desktop. Take away NVidia's and AMD's drivers and what's left is a graphically under-performing operating system. I don't think they realize that the AMD and NVidia blobs, right now, are what keep high-performance graphics alive on Linux.

    I don't like to call people names, which I'm so close to doing here with these two, so I'll just say that they're totally out of touch with reality. You kill the blobs, you kill desktop Linux.
    That's so true. There's a chance games will come to Linux and now some [...] - no, there's no moderator here - wants to steal such opportunity. Maybe in a very, very long term something like this has sense, but not at this point.

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  • curaga
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    "Desktop" = mainly web browser, and 2d sucks with the blobs. Therefore I respectfully disagree.

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