Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932254AbWEPWnD (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 18:43:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932256AbWEPWnB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 18:43:01 -0400 Received: from pool-71-254-71-216.ronkva.east.verizon.net ([71.254.71.216]:32707 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932254AbWEPWnA (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 18:43:00 -0400 Message-Id: <200605162242.k4GMgriX005985@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: alan Cc: linux cbon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 May 2006 15:19:16 PDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20060516214148.14432.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1147819372_4166P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 18:42:52 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1493 Lines: 37 --==_Exmh_1147819372_4166P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:19:16 PDT, alan said: > First of all, your assumptions are incorrect. Modern versions of X are > not old, unoptimised, will do remote sessions, etc. Remote sessions have been there as long as the DISPLAY environment variable - I think even X10.4, 2 decades and more ago, could do that. I know that it worked just fine 18 years ago with X11R1 (aah... building that from source on a 25mz Sun3 took a little while). (Anybody know when the first instance of pointing 'xmelt' at another user's machine for amusement was? :) It's interesting that almost every attempt to devise something "better than X" always seems to get as far as an Xterm-alike, an XClock-alike, a primitive window manager, and 2 or 3 toy demo programs. Then, unless you're Microsoft or Apple, you discover that doing a complete window system is *hard*..... --==_Exmh_1147819372_4166P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFEalVscC3lWbTT17ARAt+kAJ0UYkoDhSMEOl1CBuvNeV/sI+LOnQCgoSZO 4w1jmdd9TzWaodsYr2ZJo8E= =O2EQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1147819372_4166P-- - 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/