On 01/13/2014 12:38 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > Now that the new year is here and things are becoming a little less hectic, > there's a question I wanted to ask about something I saw on the list a few > weeks ago. I recall there was some discussion of one thing or another > replacing X11. That kind of surprised me. After all, isn't X11 a fairly > well entrenched standard? And why are we replacing it? I can't say that > I've had over much in the way of issues with it. > > Perhaps I'm misinterpreting what was meant. But I think of old programs > like X-Win32 or Hummingbird Neighborhood, and I wonder if replacing X11 > won't destroy those programs, or is that more along the idea of replacing > XDMCP or something similar? > > If it is being replaced in common Linux distros and other places, what's > the most likely candidate to replace it with and where can I read up more > on it?
Watch this talk by a former core X11 developer, now working on Wayland; it should provide some matter to base the discussion on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44 Seriously, it's worth an hour of your time if you're interested at all in what's wrong with X11 and where things might be heading. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
