The state of Linux graphics

The state of Linux graphics

Posted Aug 31, 2005 0:46 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
Parent article: The state of Linux graphics

For what it worths(a lot IMO), you are already a hero Jon!... You and DaveR, and many others that have dedicated their "free" time to projects similar or in the scope of Xgl, are the ones that are really keeping the word "freedom" in actuality for this community.

This is not a political or emotional statement, its the constatation of a fact. FOSS grew from the necessary tools to rudimentary graphic/command shells and exploded when alternatives to graphic Windows(tm) presented themselfs viable with KDE/Gnome on Linux. The focus was Workstation/PC to server, but server got entreprise adoption first. But if it was only to build a better server it could have been(and perhaps better) any of the "older" BSDs to gain the traction.

So i appeal for not giving up now. Better times will come, becasue if not, i belive this community will regretfully shrink to dimensions similar to those of the more used BSDs. Then nobody will be really quitting!

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