State of the X Window

[miasmablk]

wouldn't writing an x64 version of X server and using the long value to for more pixel values fix this problem?

[ContainsNoNumbers]

@miasmablk Perhaps, but that's still only x64, and that is still not as popular as x86

[SOLIDSNAKEC]

Google should hire a team of developers to properly write a window management and graphics system for Linux.

They should not hire anyone currently involved with Xorg development.

I'm speaking of a kernel based solution.

[shevegen]

Here a suggestion to the Xorg Team - listen to complaints and work to fix them. Ever since the move went to modular xorg, compiling all of xorg became complicated. Why cant they have an up-to-date instruction which includes a complete compile+run tour? The old monolithic build was so easy to compile AND have that beast work afterwards.

[walrus05]

Bart is a terrible speaker, that stupid little laugh he does at the end of most sentences is irritating. Unfortunate as the actual context of the presentation is very good.

[akatherp]

I disagree with that. I found both speakers to be quite ok and entertaining (for technical talk entertaining means they kept me interested)

[barrkel]

Inaccuracies: @35:50, Bart says "one of the big problems in the [...] Windows world is if you have magic APIs for [...] the screen and they're different from [...] printable stuff"

This is a load of tosh. Windows uses the same APIs for both. It's Unix that has had a historical problem here - X for display, PS for printing. Windows has long had GDI API drawing on a device context. Pass a printer DC to a WM_PAINT handler (to gloss over the details) and hey presto, a printed window.

[ncr100]

Free software developers rock.

[NawafLol]

Yes ,it does =D

[shrooooom]

Keith Packard is god.

that is all.

[raggar]

That guy is so annoying in the way he talks... it hurts my ears.

He should do a comedian workshop just stop the "funky" talking.

[barrkel]

Where is the download option? When tech talks were on Google Video, they could be downloaded and played back offline, such as on plane flights etc. Now they can't. This deeply sucks, hence the 1/5 rating.

[cyborgtroy]

Yeah video on the Internet has become a lot dumber in the past few years.

[reconciliation86]

don't rate the content bad if you don't like the system it is provided with.

[yvesjmt]

Hey, let Keith speak!

[diegoev]

X rocks

[Brain666Death]

thx for this one!

[JesusFreak0779]

Interesting, since I use Linux. I know a little about how X works now.

[anotherelvis]

xhost + Barton C Massey and Bart Massey.