Subj : Macintosh
To   : Darkytoo
From : Deuce
Date : Sun Jul 03 2005 03:55 pm

  Re: Macintosh
  By: Darkytoo to Deuce on Sun Jul 03 2005 12:16:00

 > I can give you an easy example of a quantum improvement.  Look at the
 > difference in activity between xfree86.org and x.org.  go to xfree86.org and
 > read the news.  4.0 was released FIVE YEARS AGO.  4.5 was just released.
 > That's one release a year.  Pitiful.  What did they add in five years?
 > Transparent windows?  nope.  Look how far OSX has come in five years.

So... let me see... 4.x has been doing everything (except transparent windows)
perfectly for five years.  Which is somehow "Pitiful" they *could* have done a
release every 60 seconds... as long as everything works, it doesn't matter.  I
have never in my life had a use for transparent windows.  While I grant that
someone else may have, I don't see transparent windows as some sort of "quantum
improvement" since I've never had the slightest use for it... and othing I use
uses it.  Of course, XFree86 *did* add DRI and OpenGL suppport.  Something that
did result in a noticeable improvemet (locally only) for a handfull of apps
that I *do* actually use.  Also, DMX is pretty cool (though I never use it
either)


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