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Linux breaks desktop barrier in 2004: Torvalds (LinuxWorld.com.au)Linux breaks desktop barrier in 2004: Torvalds (LinuxWorld.com.au)Posted Jan 17, 2004 10:22 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Linux breaks desktop barrier in 2004: Torvalds (LinuxWorld.com.au) by mmarq Parent article: Linux breaks desktop barrier in 2004: Torvalds (LinuxWorld.com.au)
Having X server with network transparency is already a win over Windows GDI,..., no need for every functionality to be attached to it! If there's a choice between putting something in the X server and putting it in the kernel, and whatever-it-is doesn't need mediation between multiple processes accessing the video card at the same time, put it in the X server. It's not much of a security advantage yet, what with the X server having CAP_RAWIO and running as iopl()ed root, but at least it can be swapped out, and at least at some point in the future it *can* be moved somewhere less prone to holes. (The only bit of the X server that runs in kernel space, DRM, is there because its job *is* mediation between multiple processes accessing the video card at the same time.)
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