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On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 23:58 +0000, cdr wrote:

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> why not? i usd to talk shit aobut OSX, mainly because it was slow on

> my G3. but they were the first with an on-GPU GUI, which was 90% of

> the resource usage. linux will maybe have this ironed out by about

> 2008, but of course there will praobly be forks/camps around DE lines,

> proprietary-driver-support biases etc.

I think it will be much sooner - I predict a mainstream distro will ship

a 3D accelerated desktop by the end of 2006.  I definitely expect Linux

to beat Microsoft on this.
Ever since the XFree86 -> Xorg transition X development has drastically

accelerated, after years of glacially slow development.
Lee