State of the X Window

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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.

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: February 7, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Author: googletechtalks

Length: 01:05:07
Rating: 4.59
Views: 17570

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walrus05 (April 1, 2008 at 7:47 am)
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 (April 8, 2008 at 8:22 am)
I disagree with that. I found both speakers to be quite ok and entertaining (for technical talk entertaining means they kept me interested)
barrkel (March 25, 2008 at 5:23 pm)
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 (March 24, 2008 at 11:58 am)
Free software developers rock.
shrooooom (March 24, 2008 at 11:39 am)
Keith Packard is god.
that is all.
raggar (March 24, 2008 at 8:15 am)
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 (March 24, 2008 at 7:54 am)
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.
yvesjmt (March 21, 2008 at 7:39 am)
Hey, let Keith speak!
diegoev (February 13, 2008 at 7:23 pm)
X rocks