BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

Linux with its texture-from-pixmap extension should be able to support RGB scaling via hardware, only I spent a few days last summer trying to get this feature to work---and after failing that, just getting some demos that should use this feature to work. That failed too. But: compiz works just fine, so the extension is probably okay. The X errors which I received were just so undebugable that I just gave up trying to figure out what is wrong.

Once Linux, too, can take RGB surface and display it on screen with hardware acceleration, things will indeed be better for us. But here's me wishing: it should be easy, not just "maybe works if you happen to have the right mixture of everything installed and moon's phase is just right".

It's awful how Linux slowly conditions one to inferior experience. I had a friend visiting and he was genuinely surprised when he saw that I could press the full-screen button on youtube and it actually worked. He failed to notice that at that time I was actually running Firefox within Windows... ;-(

From end-user point of view, this problem can't die fast enough.