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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:05:07 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments?
Message-ID:  <3B5E7DB3.97656D3C@mindspring.com>
References:  <200107241207.VAA14339@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

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Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> 
> This is to propose to abolish KLD screen saver modules.
> 
> KLD screen savers have the following problems/deficiencies.

[ ... ]

> I propose to have user-land screen savers instead of KLD
> screen savers.

[ ... "performance degradation" ... ]

[ ... "file access" ... ]

I don't see either of these as being compelling arguments
in favor of a user space implementation; I guess this means
you want to do file access in your screen saver(s).

Now if you could run Windows screen saver modules, you
might have a good argument for change, above and beyond
"change for the sake of change".

-- Terry

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