New Evolutions in the X Window System
Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf
This paper presents an overview of recent and on-going evolutions in the X
Window System. First, the state of some features will be presented, which are
already available for several months in the X server, but not yet widely used
in applications. Then some ongoing and future evolutions will be shown: On the
short term, the new EXA acceleration framework and the new modularized build
system. The last part will focus on a longer term project: the new server
architecture based on OpenGL, using it as a common framework for both 2D and 3D
acceleration.
About the Authors
Matthieu Herrb has been an XFree86 contributor from 1995 to 2004. He has
now joined X.org. He's currently maintaing X11 on OpenBSD. He has a PhD in
robotics from the Univeristy of Toulouse and works at CNRS/LAAS doing software
and system administration for robotics applications.
Matthias Hopf is working on X.org for SUSE since 2004. He has a PhD in computer
science from the Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) group in Stuttgart
and specialized in GPGPU applications and programmable graphics hardware.
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