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St. Pierre: The Linux Graphics Stack

St. Pierre: The Linux Graphics Stack

Posted Jun 25, 2012 14:25 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: St. Pierre: The Linux Graphics Stack by dlang
Parent article: St. Pierre: The Linux Graphics Stack

> for something that's such an epic fail, a lot of people are getting good use out of it.
The sole reason people use X.org is that it contains the drivers needed to make their hardware do anything. When this started to change (i. e. introduction of KMS, evdev, EGL and all that), people immediately started working to finally get rid of it.

> nobody is saying that it's perfect, not by any means, it's just better than anything else currently available
Uh, so what?


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