From: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:06:01 -0500 (CDT)

Re: kgi vs. fbcon

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Roland Nagtegaal wrote:
> > > People will like GGI if you accomplish making what they already know
> > > work better than it did before. Like maybe make gtk faster by basing
> > > it on libGGI ?
> > 
> > The biggest reasons will be :
> >   o More stable X without needing suid root.
> >   o One X server for all platforms. Not the current XF86 mess.
> >   o Better acceleration than current XF86 (possible?)
> 
> 	Doubtful, if "better" means "faster".  XFree86 sits directly on 
> top of the hardware.

Well, I have to load XF86_SVGA, and all the many many drivers that are
included which hogs memory bigtime. Does XAA even come close to fully 
taking advantage of my RIVA 128 card?

-Shawn
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