My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

[ergodic]

----- "drago01" gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ralf Corsepius freenet.de>
> wrote:
> > On 05/31/2011 09:17 AM, drago01 wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Pasha R<pashar.ml at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jason D.
> Clintonjasonclinton.com>
> >>>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 05:29, Pasha R<pashar.ml at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Probably, inability to configure your screensaver is much more
> >>>>> noticeable than inability to stop copy operation. :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Now *that* is intentional.
> >>>
> >>> Care to explain the logic behind this? Because it is really beyond
> my
> >>> understanding.
> >>
> >> Screensavers has lost there use years ago.
> >> With today's screens they don't really "save" anything but simply
> >> waste power for no reason whatever.

 Be careful!  A Plasma display needs the screensaver to prevent image burn.

> >
> > Correct, but there are much more energy wasting components.
> >
> > That said, I fail to understand how one can base a DE on GL.
> 
> Using the GPU for drawing rather then the CPU is not wasting but
> saving power. The GPU is (surprise surprise)  way more efficient at
> tasks like those.
> Pretty much any smartphone or tablet UI (those are power constrained
> devices) use a GL (or some other hardware accelerated) "desktop".
> 
> So no using GL == wasting power is simply not true. (And if it really
> is something is broken and needs to be fixed).
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