Maybe a hint?

Posted Jan 15, 2026 14:43 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Maybe a hint? by geert
Parent article: Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

There was hardware 3d before that I think. John Carmack was working on Matrox G100 / G200 drivers for Linux in the late 90s (was that the start of Linux DRI? Or GLX? I don't remember the project(s)). 2D acceleration was definitely well established. The Matrox Mystique, Millenium and S3 Virge and some others had 2D accells.