“After the article I wrote last week, many people were
curious for more details on 3D acceleration in Linux. A few
people insulted me for not being technical in an article meant to
be a summary, not a thesis. For all of you people out there wanting
a more detailed work, here you go.”
“The X Window System is a client-server graphical user
interface, designed so that it can be run across a network as
easily as it can be run on a lone computer. While this gives X
unparalleled flexibility, it makes it extraordinarily complex and
gives it an overhead that is at times unbelievable. When running on
a single computer, it has to send commands to itself through
loopback for even simple tasks, such as drawing a window….”