From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:21:39 -0600

Re: kgi vs. fbcon

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 it depends on the extent to which XF86 actually supports  that
accelerator,
doesn't it. Also, if the KGI code is simpler than the X code, we win.

Sengan