On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:11:30PM +0800, Michael Peligro wrote: > On Monday 15 July 2002 8:11 pm, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > > > If GNUstep's Display PostScript will ever work outside of X, I think > > that this might well be the first major milestone for Linux on the > > desktop. I think many people will agree that the X Window System is one > > of the major things holding back Linux from the desktop, with its > > idiosyncrasies and brain damage. I'd love to see it vanish forever. > > X is open-source. Yet its development methodology runs like a cathedral, very > unlikely open-source. That's why we're all having a hard time. X is holding > us back.
Actually, the development methodology of X is hardly the problem. X is just a horrible way to run a display. While it's good for running a program on machine A while displaying on machine B, the reality is that 99.999% of the people in the world would never use that capability. I'm a Unix hacker with 5 or 6 Unix/Linux machines sitting in my house and I never use that capability. Thankfully, XFree 4 has the idea of a video driver. That's better than grabbing another binary. But, it underscores the fact that drivers belong in the kernel. There are numerous problems with X. It's old and klunky, and it wouldn't hurt us to find something new. I'm sure you can find some decent rants against it by searching Google, or perhaps at the website of the Berlin project. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
