RE: Explanation of Shadow Framebuffer Test 7 vs. (old) Offscreen Test 7

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

>There is a story behind Cygwin/Xfree86 project.

Heh... I have three reason for working on this project and two of them is
similar to Suhaib's reasons.
1) When I was in my introduction to computer science course at Carnegie
Mellon I wanted to use an X server on my Windows machine to display X apps
running on the computers in the lab.  I wanted to use my Windows machine
because it had a nicer mouse than my Linux machine, plus then I wouldn't
have to juggle keyboards and mice all over the place when I wanted to run X
apps.  I looked for a free Windows X server but the only one I found was
pretty worthless.  Ever since then it has been a goal of mine to give all
the engineering and computer science students out there a free Windows X
server so they don't have to go to the computer labs :)

2) My second goal is world domination for Linux, of course :)  Honestly.
Linux needs a killer app, but once it gets that killer app it needs a method
to slowly penetrate corporate networks.  With a free Windows X server an IT
manager can give all the Windows users the killer app without having to
switch the workstations from Windows to GNU/Linux/KDE/Gnome.  After several
months/years the people using the killer app will wonder why they can't just
have their KDE/Gnome desktop from the X server on their primary computer.
That's when corporate workstations start switching to GNU/Linux.  :)

3) Commercial Windows X servers for are overpriced.

Hopefully the market for commercial Windows X servers has just started to
dry up :)

Harold Hunt