On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:13:04PM -0700, Jim Franklin wrote: > Hi folks > I'm not to knowledgeable on the issues of Berlin and X windows but the > general consensus I get from people is the X windows is out dated > technology and Berlin is the up and coming contender. Why would we go > for an X windows port instead of a Berlin port first? Is Berlin a > project that will be usable only in the far future or is it near a > usable state now?
Hi, first, geting X out of the door is not too hard, and will happen in the not so far future. Most things needed to get it working are not even much related to X specifically, and are the same under X and berlin. Then, Berlin is under active development, which means that it is not ready. X is as lively and up-to-date as ever, and there are hundreds of applications for it. We surely don't want to miss them, do we? Third, X is actually a prerequirement for Berlin, as we need a display engine for Berlin, and porting a native display engine for GGI will be harder than just using the X backend for it. So, as much as I would like to see Berlin as the first GUI in the Hurd, I am afraid it will be our old X Window that makes the run :) As someone asked: Berlin is hosted by sourceforge, check www.sourceforge.net and search for berlin. Thanks, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
