{"id":1307,"date":"2006-11-10T23:19:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/uds-last-day\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T23:19:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T21:19:59","slug":"uds-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/uds-last-day\/","title":{"rendered":"UDS – last day."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photos<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTonight, the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Mountainview, California at the Googleplex will
\nconclude. Some people,
\n\t\t\tsuch as the Oxygen guys are already flying out in the course of the day, so attendance
\nis thinning out.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tToday, I’ve attended a couple of BoFs on X in general, since that’s pretty interesting
\nfor the future of
\n\t\t\tGuidance’s<\/a> displayconfig. The
\ngood news is that X will
\n\t\t\tbe able to do much more runtime configuration, to the point where the developers think
\nthat the infamous xorg.conf
\n\t\t\tcan be abandoned completely. That’d mean that we’re basically doing all kind of
\ndisplayconfiguration at runtime,
\n\t\t\tno necessity to restart X anymore and less risk of ending up with an X server that’s not
\nstarting after
\n\t\t\tconfiguration changes such as switching to dualhead setups. Really nice.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tOn the driver front, there has been some discussion during the last days. The intention
\nis to enable
\n\t\t\tComposite (bling!) by default in the next Ubuntu release. Unfortunately, that includes
\nshipping and enaling binary
\n\t\t\tdrivers by default in some cases.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tMore good things Keith Packard told about is that there’s some light at the end of the
\ntunnel: It seems that ATi
\n\t\t\tis currently trying to find a way to publish specifications for at least some more of
\ntheir chips
\n\t\t\t(not *if*, but *how*!), that might have been the effect of AMD buying ATi. There’s also
\npromising work being done
\n\t\t\ton a new free NVidia driver. Apparently, some time ago there have been patches
\nobfuscating some code, that is being
\n\t\t\ttaken as a starting point for reverse engineering the “Nouveau”<\/a>
\n\t\t\tdriver. So at some point in the future, hopefully not too far away, there will be 3d
\naccelerated X for most of the
\n\t\t\tgraphics hardware around.
\n\t\t\tAlso coming up in Xorg is a new memory management system, that will make Composite at
\nacceptable framerates possible
\n\t\t\tfor most of the free drivers, and thus more free software users happy.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tIn the “bulletproof X”, we discussed to make the odds that X doesn’t start as small as
\npossible. That requires some
\n\t\t\tchanges in GDM, mostly to check if X started, and to take measures if not. As Kubuntu
\nguy around here, that kind of
\n\t\t\tfixes also needs to be done in KDM, since Kubuntu is not using GDM. Keeping track of
\nthis is probably a good idea,
\n\t\t\talthough I wonder how much more things like that are being forgotten to also ‘port’ to
\nKubuntu.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tYesterday night, we went out in Mountainview again, visited a bookstore where I got a
\ncopy of
\n\t\t\tLawrence Lessig’s Free
\nCulture<\/em><\/a>. David Vignoni
\n\t\t\tfrom the Oxygen team joined us to have a burger (restaurant version, not the fast food
\nthing, I managed to avoid that
\n\t\t\tspecial experience yet) and a couple of beers. Tonight, we’ll conclude this summit going
\nout to have food with most
\n\t\t\tof the people attending it, tomorrow I’ll go to San Francisco for four more night,
\nnothing specific planned yet
\n\t\t\t(drop me a note if you’re in the Bay area and want to go out for a drink).\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Googleplex is a really nice location, though, and the Googlers are taking care of us
\nFree Software people just
\n\t\t\texcellently. Special thanks to Leslie Hawthorn for being around, answering all our
\nquestions and being the nice girl
\n\t\t\twe can approach with whatever we have. Thanks Leslie!<\/p>\n

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