From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <451cb3010502161144fefc75a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:44:02 +0200 From: McLone To: Sergey Reva , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Evolving rio / GUI development In-Reply-To: <56761140.20050216211557@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8c029c990502160945781f293d@mail.gmail.com> <56761140.20050216211557@mail.ru> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4949425e-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:15:57 +0200, Sergey Reva wrote: > How much people work on Plan 9? Who can do this (and who have time for just look on Freedesktop's cairo -> glitz -> (debrix|xserver) -> DRI and u'll understand. Sure they [still] have monolithic tree, XAA drivers and such.... but i'm telling it's not easy to do now, at least from HW support PoV. > RC> This is interesting. Why don't you find yourself spending a lot > RC> of time using the other window managers? > Because other more advanced (more friendly to user). complicated configs != user-friendly simple/mainstream ones ~= unuseable IMO > SS> Ideally I would run at 1600 odd but my monitor just isn't sharp enough. > What need to do people who have only 800x600? w00t? 800x600 nowadays? * You must be kiddin'. Even used cards/CRTs can do 1024x768x75+hz! * Turn it on, work couple'o'hours, then report. [different OSes] -- wbr, |\ _,,,---,,_ dog bless ya! ` Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ McLone at GMail dot com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' net- and *BSD admin '---''(_/--' `-'\_) ...sorry for translit