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Open ArsDigita Community System
EVAS: Hardware accelerated image blending, rendering, scaling, anti-aliased text rendering - a reality on your desktop
Crystal Space 3D engine
Globally Distributed Content
The Sweep Sound Editor
Free Software development strategies
Internationalisation
Security at kernel level
KDE: features, architecture and development framework.
Mozilla
The Hurd
Smoothwall
Writing Free Software in Java
The MOSIX Resource Sharing Algorithms for Efficient Cluster Computing
Software Patents
PHP
Nessus
GnuPG internals
LDAP, Python, SWIG
GNU/Linux Embedded
Gnome/Bonobo
Midgard
Samba
Network Reconnaissance Techniques

EVAS: Hardware accelerated image blending, rendering, scaling, anti-aliased text rendering - a reality on your desktop

Quietly in the bowels of some CVS repository in a galaxy far far away some code has been brewing... The results? Anti-aliased text in X with full hardware acceleration AND optimized software paths included, hardware accelerated image scaling and blending, to make stunning user interfaces on the Linux desktop a reality. This paper will cover what was needed to get this far, the pitfalls of working on such a project and the great benefits and how to take advantage of the work that has gone into this.