for use without the abortion that is X
hahaha!
True. It has many advocates and I don't get why: it's causing most of the graphics jerkyness in Linux and is one of the main culprits of this OS's weight.
Good thing we already got wayland almost ready for desktop-addicts (I'm a terminal guy anyway, so I don't really mind desktop systems).
I'd like to take a peak into that OpenVG library too: I'm currently finishing a nice dispmanx backend for libSDL. I already have nice double-buffered graphics with zero tearing, thus having examples running smooth as Amiga scrolls.
Does OpenVG implement buffer and vsync control? As I understand it, it's just for vector graiphics plotting so it needs an underlaying system to render into... correct me if I'm wrong.