Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932211AbWEPWTS (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 18:19:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932212AbWEPWTS (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 18:19:18 -0400 Received: from 216-99-213-120.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.213.120]:1442 "EHLO clueserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932211AbWEPWTR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 18:19:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: alan X-X-Sender: alan@blackbox.fnordora.org To: linux cbon cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! In-Reply-To: <20060516214148.14432.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20060516214148.14432.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1525 Lines: 42 On Tue, 16 May 2006, linux cbon wrote: > hi, > > I know it may not be the best place, sorry for that. > > X Window System is old, not optimized, slow, not > secure (uses root much), accesses the video hardware > directly (thats the kernel's job !), it cannot do VNC, > etc. > > The question is : what are your ideas to make a system > remplacing X Window System ? > > I think that linux kernel should contain a very basic > and universal Window System module (which could also > work on Unixes and BSDs) to replace X, X.org etc. > > What do you think about this ? This is a topic that comes up every year or so. Every year the result is the same. It is not going to happen. First of all, your assumptions are incorrect. Modern versions of X are not old, unoptimised, will do remote sessions, etc. There are a couple of very hard problems here. First you have to come up with a design that is better than X. That is pretty hard. Next you have to convince all the programmers to port their code over to use your new spiffy API. That is even harder. Until you have a working model, or at least a design, you can blue-sky all you want. It won't get anywhere and just waste other people's electrons. -- "Waiter! This lambchop tastes like an old sock!" - Sheri Lewis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/