X.org General Musings

A few weeks ago I blogged about moving my development machine to Ubuntu. So far so good, but here is what I've noticed so far as a developer:

  • apt-get source foo is the best command in the world when playing with packages
  • Fedora configured my X with a very small xorg.conf. Ubuntu's default xorg.conf is HUUUGE and bloated on this new install. Congrats to the Redhat guys that made this possible. Ubuntu guys, please start doing the same.

Also on related X news, I'm very suprised at the lack of noise about open source NVidia driver effort. It seems to me that 5 talented X hackers using renouveau could probably do a half decent OpenGL driver in a couple of weeks. Even if the driver wasn't complete, a driver that would work for 90% of typical use scenarios would be great. Or even better, if renouveau could be made point and click so that 500 semi-talented hackers could do it in a few months.

After looking at the TODO page I've decided my code-karma is probably lacking for X and DRI work, although I'm doing lots of background reading to try and do something useful in a few months, and if nothing else, I can help improve the documentation.

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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.

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  1. interesting, but what I'd really like is EXA support for ati r300 cards. according to what I found with google, it should be a relatively simple work, for someone who knows what he is doing, but it seems that no one has the time to do it… I really should learn C…

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