The future of X?

Vulpes Velox kitbsdlists at HotPOP.com
Wed Nov 12 21:08:20 PST 2003


On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:02:01 -0600
Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists at HotPOP.com> wrote:
> 
> I personally doubt that this new xserver will amount to much. Especially given
> a major lack of drivers. It could possibly be interesting, but I don't see
> them really going any where fast or at all. I also get the feeling that they
> will probally want to try to be linux centric with it. I personally think a
> module for doing stuff like that would be much more fesable. But from what I
> have heard getting stuff commited to the XFree86 project is a prob. What could
> be done is to take the current XFree86 code and put it in a enviroment where
> things can be more easily added. This would probally be much better since it
> would not mean writing things from scratch and all ready have a nice amount of
> drivers to pull from.

Whoops, my bad... accidentally got this confused with one of the other projects
going on...

Yeah, this is one of the few X projects going on that looks like it actually has
possible potential.

Any ways, sorry for that bit and any confusion it cuased.


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