All Posts Tagged With: "Xorg"
The State of the 3D Desktop
August 23, 2002. That’s how long it’s been since we’ve had hardware accelerated compositing on the desktop, introduced in Mac OS X 10.2. Xwindows first received 3D compositing via Compiz in January 2006. In January 2007 Redmond joined the party with the release of the much maligned Windows Vista, which finally allocated desktop rendering duty [...]
9Apr2008 | Michael Lankton | 0 comments | ContinuedRefresher Course: The Free Unix Desktop
I have been using a Mac at home since 2002. Prior to that I had been a big NeXT guy, and my home network always consisted of a mix of OPENSTEP and FreeBSD boxes, with the occasional partition devoted to Windows for gaming.
My hosting costs just skyrocketed after a friend and I decided to share [...]




