Camaleón:
> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:55:09 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>
>> I am not an X window programmer (don't even know C), but my impression
>> is that X has quite a few design warts that many people would love to
>> get rid of. And you cannot really blame X for that, it's more than 25
>> years old and was designed at a time where GUIs were still quite
>> uncommon.
>
> Yes, but people's wishes tend to go faster than developers achivements
> and today there are many applications which depend/rely on Xorg/X11 and
> porting them to play fine with another display system requires time (and
> not just to play fine but to be stable and provinding the same
> capabilities that currently are there).
True. X11's age does not only make replacing it a better idea, but a
harder task, too. :)
>> I cannot judge whether Wayland is in any way better, though.
>
> Me neither, but it is still at alpha stage (well, this is said from a
> person -me- who still uses grub legacy because is robust, well-known and
> mature). I mean, I'm a bit conservative :-)
I actually jumped on the grub2 bandwagon, but only because I needed one
of its features. (Cool thing: boot your BIOS update iso from disk and
flash it. :))
But I tend to agree with what another poster said: Ubuntu may be the
right place to try things like this. Debian isn't, but it still may
profit from the experience. Without being a Ubuntu fanboy, I hope this
experiment won't damage their reputation.
J.
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