On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Eric P. <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> Yeah, spring up and die. Wayland? For a laugh, look up Berlin in the way back 
> time machine: http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2001012900504OSDTSW
>
> Talk is cheap. It's funny how, "X blows and C sucks." is usually something
> one writes while sitting on a free desktop powered primarily by both.

I had never heard of the Berlin project. Thanks for the link.

But my point is that Wayland is fairly successful at delivering what
it set out to, an alternative display manager with compositing. It
works, and even if it's far enough from actually replacing X, it's
getting traction.

The same applied to a few other X replacement projects. They didn't
entirely replace X, but they did show that it's possible to do so
given enough free time, resources and developer interest.

I'm not against X, but if something else comes up with enough
potential, we shouldn't just dismiss it because it's new.

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]>
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