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XFree86 10 Years Old

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the way-to-go-everyone dept.

ChazeFroy writes "XFree86 is now 10 years old. To quote from the page, 'What makes this particularly eventful is that it is fully backwards compatible; this is a true testament to the spirit of the original X protocol of which XFree86 is its finest implementation.'" Ten years and still binary compatible. Very cool.

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  1. Re:suggested X changes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    X standardised Xt, a standard for toolkit interoperability at the component level (it is possible to embedd an Xaw component in a Motif application, for example).

    Unfortunately, neither Gtk nor Qt honour Xt, nor X's excellent "resource database" generalised configuration and theming (yes, theming!) system.

    Gtk because it was written by a bunch of people initially without the faintest clue how X actually works, and Qt because Qt is like "Swing for C++" - it's intended to be cross-platform, and thus handles most drawing "itself", merely requiring prettu much a dumb framebuffer underneath.

    Thus, the two most popular toolkits on Linux are abysmal from an X standpoint.