Jeff Waugh wrote: > A lot of people call X 'bloated' and 'old' [1], without really grokking how > incredible the architecture really is.
Or as Steve Jobs said "X -- sometimes when you fill a vacuum it still sux". > Jim Gettys did a talk a while back about the history of X, and why it has > been held back by a lengthy 'dark age' (blame the proprietary UNIX vendors > who were not innovating on the desktop). X is broken for innovation as it leads to programs having differing user interfaces (depending on windowing system, widget kit, etc). This is a necessary consequence of X's "no windowing policy" attitude. Compare this to Windows/Mac where innovation occurs in the toolkit, and thus all applications behave the same. Glen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
