March 24, 2005

Seth Nickell has posted an informative report, with video clips, on new technologies making their way into X Windows. Luminosity integrates many OpenGL effects into X Windows, while Cairo increases the rendering quality of GTK+ widgets and allows them to scale cleanly to any resolution. These improvements will allow X Windows to fully compete with Microsoft's Avalon and WinFX rendering on Longhorn.

Here are the Links

The Seth Nickell Article Here