[Discuss] Wide screen monitor

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2008-05-07 19:03-0700 stanfish wrote:

> Thanks Alan but I could not find anything on http://www.phoronix.com/ that I 
> thought that was within my capabilities. ... Certainly building a binary deb 
> package seems about like a homemade moon-shot to me at the moment.

Understood.  Note, the point of me mentioning the Phoronix news site was to
help give you and everybody else here essential background information (not
detailed technical information) on all the current rapid X changes.  The
news articles on that site are admittedly filled with jargon, but that
jargon is essential for understanding what is going on with X even in broad
overview, and can be straightforwardly learned by continuing to read the
news articles there on X with the occasional google search to help
understand some of the terms.  The Phoronix news site should be particularly
helpful to those like you who have bought AMD/ATI hardware since that site
has been doing an extensive job reporting on all the X software developments
since AMD/ATI opened up their hardware specifications to the X developers
late last year.

I personally think your best course now that you have run into X trouble
with Mepis is to ask for help from mailing lists or forums associated with
the Mepis distribution.  But wherever you get help it will likely be couched
in the same jargon used by the Phoronix news site which is why I am still
recommending that site to you even though you are feeling a bit technically
challenged at the moment.  :-)

The traditional 2D Linux desktop was not a technical challenge a year ago
and also that desktop with lots of 3D add-ons won't be a technical challenge
in a year from now, but right now the fact is Linux desktop users generally
do need to know quite a bit more because X is in so much turmoil due to the
rapid advances that are being made.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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