On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Michael Chaney wrote:
..
> 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.

Luckily for XFree, in most cases locked-up X doesn't mean locked-up 
machine. Can't say that for Windows.

..
> 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.

I've heard about Berlin and GGI on and off for YEARS. The fact they're 
still moribund says plenty about how good X is.

It's one thing to bellyache about X, but no one (at least until Aqua) has 
been able to come up with a decent alternative -- of course there's the 
Sun NeWS, which had DPS support too. And died.


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Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mosaic Communications, Inc.

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