I like X, especially XFree86. It's a proven, resrouce light, network aware graphical subsystem. Many fine window managers have been built on X, KDE's, Sawfish, Enlightenment, and Window Maker to name a few. All of the mentioned have multiple desktops and workspaces built in, and this advantage alone makes it better than most comercial windowing systems. X forwarding through SSH is fast, efficient and very useful, but very expensive in it's comercial form. A reasonable demonstration is Quake II played on Window Maker. That and other typical activities, which took very little effort to set up, can be here:
http://www.hillnotes.org/fixit/screenshots/screenshots.html On 2003.08.29 11:10 Challison wrote: > What is everyones opinion of X11? > My personal opinion is that it was designed to allow the running of apps on > one machine while viewing the running program on a separate machine......I > think thats right. It does not seem to have been developed to offer the > best desktop experience and I find myself wondering what there isn't an > open source equivalent to the OS X desktop.....what is it called today, > panther, jaguar or something like that. > I'd love to hear your opinions on this matter.....and please feel free to > correct me where I am wrong, I didn't put any effort into trying to make > sure that I was right. > cha >
