On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:55:56 +0000
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A Windows Vista with XGL Desktop Instead of Aero?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | What exactly is Microsoft wining from its partnership (and possible
> | future acquisition) with Novell?
> |
> | Everybody knows today that the little Penguin just got a big hug
> from the | big daddy, Microsoft. Novell was the lucky company to make
> its Linux | distro available for interoperability with Windows, and to
> me, that | was not a surprise. Actually, of all the companies out
> there providing | open source solutions for individual customers or
> for enterprise, | seemed to me the only one to be able to accept a
> treaty with the | enemy.
> |
> | Novell was always a company that sort of tried to elude the GPL,
> | beginning with their famous XGL desktop, developed "in house".
> | They got a lot of criticism for that, although offering it
> | progressively for Linux distros like Ubuntu, Kororaa or Knoppix
> | dampened that criticism and eventually turned the company into a
> | worldwide hero.
> `----
>
> http://www.playfuls.com/news_05079_A_Windows_Vista_with_XGL_Desktop_Instead_of_Aero.html
without reading the article that would just take a huge metric ass load
of work to do. vista is opengl over directx, although the lower level
graphics api is the guts of the interface, it would still have to be
re-written.
ms took bsd sockets into winsock, they could put xgl into vista if they
wanted, but they dont have to as they have gl routines that aero makes
use of already, compiz would be just a few window manager tweaks so it's
nothing special for them.
i was thinking today that it would be a few months before someone makes
some kind of port, maybe cygwin changes or whatever for it... but
generally i doubt more than a few (2-6) months before someone has had
chance to add all the ui features to some vista add on.
still doesnt change things though, it wont be as good or work as
productively as the command line does ootb on bsd/linux/gnu systems.
--
Regards, Ed :: http://www.bsdwarez.net
proud perl person
Vin Diesel was about to destroy all of N*Sync, but stopped because he
doesn't hurt women.
|
|
