Comment Re: point 1 and 2 (Score 2, Insightful) 843
no you dork. video drivers in kernel space lets you run X as a non-priv user. That's the whole fucking point. X should talk to the kernel, not the hardware.
"If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight." -- attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory
