State of the X Window

Google Tech Talks
February, 7 2008

ABSTRACT

A few years ago, development of the X Window System was
revitalized by a change in management and the rise of a
new generation of machines and operating systems. This
talk is a tour of X, with emphasis on the things that are
new and the things that are to come: advances in 2D
rendering, use of 3D hardware, high-quality typography,
revamped input support, client-side migration of
responsibilities, and new support for the critical layers
of software between the server and the toolkit. It's the
seventh Year of the Linux Desktop, and the future has
never looked shinier.

Speaker: Keith Packard, Intel
Keith Packard was employee number three at the MIT X
Consortium, and has written a substantial portion of the
open-source X Window System server. He currently works
for Intel, and is a founding Board Member of the X.Org
Foundation.

Speaker: Barton C Massey, Portland State University
Bart Massey is an Associate Professor of Computer Science
at Portland State University, and Secretary of the X.Org
Foundation. His current research interests are in
development and deployment of open hardware and software
technologies.

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[JesusFreak0779]

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

[ncr100]

Free software developers rock.

[ContainsNoNumbers]

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

[miasmablk]

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

[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.

[NawafLol]

Yes ,it does =D

[reconciliation86]

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

[cyborgtroy]

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

[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.

[akatherp]

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

[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.