On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 06:20:26PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > Luckily for XFree, in most cases locked-up X doesn't mean locked-up > machine. Can't say that for Windows. >
True, but a locked-up X often means a locked-up console, which means the same thing if you have a Linux box with no external network connections and no way to log into the box remotely to kill the errant X server, or at the very least Magic SysRq compiled into the kernel. This is typical for most people who use Linux at home. > 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. > No, what it says is that X is just *good enough* for most purposes, which is why most people haven't really thought much about what possible alternatives might exist, or that an alternative is even necessary. However, times are changing looks like, and there's a lot of talk about how much arcane wizardry is needed to make X a workable system. > 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. I'm not exactly sure what the whole story was, but what I do remember is that Sun kept NeWS proprietary and in so doing lost the standards war to X. NeWS was technically superior to and far more elegant than X will ever be from what I remember of it. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <dido at imperium dot ph> +63(2)8123151 Software Developer, Imperium Technology Inc. +63(917)4458925 _ 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]
